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Crazy Beast From Madagascar


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Dr Krause does it again. Another mammal from the Cretaceous of Madagascar. Named the "crazy beast" in hybrid Malagasy and Greek. Also named after a colleague who passed away. Weird reading about people you've worked with and met. My wife did unrelated research with Dr. Hu too. Don't get fooled by the picture at the top of the page, it is from a gallery of extinct creatures

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/world/crazy-beast-fossil-mammal-scn-trnd/index.html

 

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From the article:

"This is the well-preserved skeleton of Adalatherium hui, a gondwanatherian mammal that lived on Madagascar 66 million years ago."

 

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

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5 hours ago, Sjfriend said:

Nice looking find! A whole creature instead of bits.

I have seen some of the fossils from this quarry first hand and the preservation is unbelievable.

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The 'crazy beast' that lived among the dinosaurs.

The bizarre features of this mammal have scientists

perplexed as to how it could have evolved, Taylor &

Francis Group, PhysOrg, December 18, 2020

 

The open access paper is:

 

David W. Krause, Joseph R. Groenke, Simone 

Hoffmann, Raymond R. Rogers, Lydia J. Rahantarisoa. 

Introduction to Adalatherium hui (Gondwanatheria, 

Mammalia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. 

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020; 40 (sup1):

4 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2020.1805455

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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TOPICS MERGED.  ;) 

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    Tim    -  VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER

   MOTM.png.61350469b02f439fd4d5d77c2c69da85.png      PaleoPartner.png.30c01982e09b0cc0b7d9d6a7a21f56c6.png.a600039856933851eeea617ca3f2d15f.png     Postmaster1.jpg.900efa599049929531fa81981f028e24.jpg    VFOTM.png.f1b09c78bf88298b009b0da14ef44cf0.png  VFOTM  --- APRIL - 2015  

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