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About the Species
This specimen was collected from the Hettangian-Sinomurian Formation (Early Jurassic) in the Lufeng Basin of Junan, P.R. China. It was made available to the University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. A. W. Crompton of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and Dr. Zhe-Xi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
About this Specimen
This specimen was scanned on by Richard Ketcham and Matthew Colbert 21 April 1999. It was scanned along the coronal axis for a total of 446 slices. Slice thickness is 0.096 mm with an interslice spacing of 0.072 mm (for a slice overlap of 0.024 mm).
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Literature
Gauthier J., A.G. Kluge, and T. Rowe. 1988. Amniote phylogeny and the importance of fossils. Cladistics 4:105-210.
Kermack, K.A. 1963. The cranial structure of the triconodonts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 246:83-103.
Kermack K.A., F. Mussett, and H.W. Rigney. 1981. The skull of Morganucodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71:1-158.
Luo, Z., A.W. Crompton, and S.G. Lucas. 1995. Evolutionary origins of the mammalian promontorium and cochlea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:113-121.
Rougier, G.W., J.R. Wible, and J.A. Hopson. 1996. Basicranial anatomy of Priacodon fruitaensis (Triconodontidae, Mammalia) from the late Jurassic of Colorado, and a reappraisal of mammaliaform interrelationships. American Museum Novitates 3183:1-38.
Rowe, T. 1996. Coevolution of the mammalian middle ear and neocortex. Science 273:651-654.
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