“REPTILIAN” vs MAMMALIAN DENTITION
MOLARS OF MESOZOIC PROTOTHERIANS
MOLARS OF MULTITUBERCULATES & MONOTREMES Multituberculata Ptilodus Monotremata Obdurodon Ornithorhynchus
EVOLUTION OF THERIAN MOLARS Tribosphenic
THERIAN (TRIBOSPHENIC) MOLARS (occlusal view) upper lower (lateral view)
TRIBOSPHENIC MOLAR OCCLUSION
Variations on Tribosphenic molar ectoloph Dilambdodont (insectivore) Quadrate or Bunodont (primate)
MOLARS – crowns & roots
Lophodont molar (murid rodents)
Selenodont molar (artiodactyls)
Loxodont molar (elephant) (capybara)
DENTAL FORMULA Canis lupus Upper dentition (one side only) I C P M 3 1 4 2 1 1 4 3 I c p m Lower dentition (one side only) ________ 3 1 4 2 (x 2) = 42 3 1 4 3
DENTAL FORMULAS
Extreme dentitions Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus) simplification and reduction Common dolphin (Delphinus) simplification and multiplication
EARLY MAMMAL GROUPS
ORDER SYMMETRODONTA basal therians Kuehneotherium late Triassic – early Jurassic Europe Hadrocodium earlyJurassic, China Vincelestes early Cretaceus, Argentina
Loss of post-dentary bones in lower jaw SYMMETRODONTS Loss of post-dentary bones in lower jaw Hadrocodon (Docodont, Prototherian) Hadrocodium (Symmetrodont, basal Therian)
SYMMETRODONT Molar structure
Sinodelphys -- early Cretaceous (China) OLDEST MARSUPIAL? Sinodelphys -- early Cretaceous (China) 4 1 4 4 4 1 4 3 = 50
Eomaia -- early Cretaceous (China) OLDEST EUTHERIAN ? Eomaia -- early Cretaceous (China) _______ 5 1 5 3 4 1 5 3 = 54
Ukhaatherium late Cretaceus, Mongolia EARLY EUTHERIAN Ukhaatherium late Cretaceus, Mongolia 5 1 4 3 _________ = 50 4 1 4 3
Skulls of early therians
Skulls of early therians
ORDER: DIDELPHIMORPHIA Family: Didephildae EARLY METATHERIAN ORDER: DIDELPHIMORPHIA Family: Didephildae Alphadon (Late Createous, N. America) 5 1 3 4 4 1 3 4 = 50
early diversification To Antarctica & Australia MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHY Asian origin? (early Cretaceous) To N. America early diversification (late Cretaceous) Reinvasion of N. America (Quaternary) Extinction on northern continents (mid Tertiary) To S. America (early Cretaceous) Ameridelphian diversification (late Cretaceous) To Antarctica & Australia (early Tertiary) Australodelphian Isolation and diversification (Tertiary) Isolation of southern continents (late Cretaceous)
CLADOGRAM OF RECENT MARSUPIALS Ameridelphia Australodelphia (outgroups)
MARSUPIAL CLASSIFICATION
Marsupial – Placental differences Cranial & dental morphology Didelphis Canis
________ 5 1 3 4 4 1 3 4 3-5 1 4-5 3 3-4 1 4-5 3 __________ = 50 = 44-54