Regular articleThereuodon(Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe, and a brief review of symmetrodonts
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2013, Cretaceous ResearchCitation Excerpt :The model proposes that most of the areas that currently compose the European region had a close biogeographical affinity with Gondwana during the earliest Cretaceous (i.e., Berriasian–Hauterivian times, allowed by a connections through Africa) (Fig. 23). The recognition of an Eurogondwanan fauna from the Berriasian to Hauterivian is based on the shared presence in Europe and Gondwana of spinosaurid theropods, rebbachisaurid and derived titanosaurian sauropods, basal dryomorph ornithopods, and boreosphenidan, peramurid, and thereuodontid mammals (e.g.; Rage, 1988; Buffetaut, 1989; Le Loeuff, 1991; Russell, 1993; Martill and Hutt, 1996; Charig and Milner, 1997; Sigogneau-Russell and Ensom, 1998; Martill and Naish, 2001; Dalla-Vecchia, 2003; Torcida et al., 2003; Juárez Valieri et al., 2004; Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004; Ruiz-Omeñaca et al., 2005; Gheerbrant and Rage, 2006; Canudo et al., 2008, 2009; Coria et al., 2010; Ezcurra and Agnolín, 2012b) (Fig. 23). These tetrapod clades yet remain unrecorded in Asiamerica for the same time-span.
Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades
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2009, Cretaceous ResearchCitation Excerpt :Barberenia allenensis is similar to Barberenia araujoae; the molars of the latter have been thought to be deciduous teeth (Martin, 1999, 2002; Bonaparte, 2002; Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004). This supposition is mainly based on the similarity between Barberenia´s molariforms and deciduous teeth of Dryolestes, from the Late Jurassic from Laurasia (Martin, 1997), and isolated elements of Thereuodon of Early Cretaceous age from Morocco (Sigogneau-Russell and Ensom, 1998). The family Barbereniidae was created by Bonaparte (1990) to hold the genus Barberenia and it was defined by the presence of a basin between the parastyle and the paracone, and another one between the paracone and metastyle, both separated by a ridge, and also by the persistence of the metacone, features not known in any other South American dryolestoid (Bonaparte, 1992).
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