- al. (2013)
eutriconodonts were in
unresolved polytomy with
multituberculates and trechnotherians. If
confirmed this
would make
eutriconodonts one of the...
-
least from 190–66 mya.
Triconodontids can be
distinguished from
other eutriconodonts by the
shape of
their molars,
which bore
three main
cusps of roughly...
- Triconodontidae.
Compared to
earlier eutriconodonts,
Alticonodon has
molars better specialised for shearing. As
eutriconodonts as a
group had
shearing molars...
- standards.
Combined with the
general adaptations for
carnivory that
eutriconodonts display, it is safe to say that it was a
predator of
other vertebrates...
-
mammal species that
existed in the
Mesozoic Era were multituberculates,
eutriconodonts and spalacotheriids. The earliest-known
fossil of the
Metatheria ("changed...
- vertebrates.
Mammals diversify into shuotheriids, australosphenidans,
eutriconodonts, multituberculates, symmetrodonts,
dryolestids and
boreosphenidans but...
- niches, from the more rodent-like
multituberculates to the
carnivorous eutriconodonts (including the
possibly volant Triconolestes) to the anteater-like Fruitafossor...
- or aquatic, Astroconodon, like most
eutriconodonts, was
almost certainly a predator. Like in most
eutriconodonts, its
triconodont molars were adapted...
-
herbivores (Schowalteria, Zhelestidae).
Various "archaic"
groups like
eutriconodonts were
common in the
Early Cretaceous, but by the Late
Cretaceous northern...
- to
living marsupials and
placentals (Theria) than to
monotremes or
eutriconodonts,
though some
studies place the
entirety of
Allotheria outside of crown...
