Ambondro mahabo

fossil mammal

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  • Lateral view of a set of teeth from Ambondro mahabo, an extinct shrewlike mammal.
    In Ambondro

    …the present, the fossil specimen, A. mahabo, pushed the origin of the tribosphenic dentition back by 25 million years from its previous first occurrence in the Cretaceous Period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago). Ambondro also extended the known geographic range of early tribosphenic mammals to the Southern Hemisphere,…

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