Fossil, Top, and Skeleton Drawing of Adalatherium (IMAGE)

University of Louisville

Fossil, Top, and Skeleton Drawing of Adalatherium

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The fossil, top, and skeletal drawing, bottom, of Adalatherium. Discovered in Madagascar, the remarkably complete fossil sheds light on the gondwanatherians, a little-known group of mammals found in the Southern Hemisphere. Adalatherium lived at the time of dinosaurs, roughly 66 million years ago.

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science/Andrey Atuchin

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