Early Cretaceous mammals from Bol’shoi Kemchug 3 locality in West Siberia, Russia

Averianov A.O., Skutschas P.P., Lopatin A.V., Leshchinskiy S.V., Rezvyi A.S., Fayngertz A.V.

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A small sample of mammalian isolated teeth and edentulous dentary fragments from the Early Cretaceous locality Bol’shoi Kemchug 3 in Krasnoyarsk Territory, West Siberia, Russia, represents five taxa: amphilestid Kemchugia magna gen. & sp. nov., Amphilestidae indet., gobiconodontids Gobiconodon sp. A and B, and Mammalia indet. The large sized Kemchugia magna gen. & sp. nov. is based on two isolated molariforms. Amphilestidae indet. is represented by single molariform and two edentulous dentary fragments. Gobiconodon sp. A is similar in size to G. hoburensis from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Gobiconodon sp. B is some 20% larger than G. borissiaki from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. A minute edentulous dentary with alveoli for two posterior molariforms is referred to Mammalia indet. Dental lamina pits on the lingual side of gobiconodontid jaws, interpreted as openings for the epidermal filaments connecting the dental lamina with the growing enamel cup of a developing tooth germ, are reported here for the first time and confirm replacement of molariform teeth in Gobiconodontidae.DOI: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.4.1.01

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