Belgian paleontologists have discovered a new primitive species of mammal that lived at the end of the age of dinosaurs

This group originated in the Jurassic period and has existed for at least 120 million years. These little tubercles have crawled among the dinosaurs for about 90 million years. For example, RBINS paleontologists found dinosaurs at the site in Inner Mongolia Protoceratops, Pinacosaurus en Velociraptor. Discover again in Romania Paludititan employment Zalmox, One is similar to iguanodon.

Unlike dinosaurs, multiple species survived the extinction wave at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. They also overcame the great global warming after ten million years, which gave rise to modern mammals (horses, cats, monkeys, …). But 35 million years ago, it was multituberculin Then off the scene.

study on cryptobatar, In collaboration with researchers from the Inner Mongolia Museum, it was published in Cretaceous search, to study cogenon, In collaboration with researchers from Babeş-Bolyai University, in Mammal Evolution Journal. This article is based on a press release issued by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.