Gondwanatheres facts for kids
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Gondwanatheria is an extinct group of mammals that lived during the Upper Cretaceous to the end of the Eocene. They lived in the Southern Hemisphere continents which had been part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
These mammals are known only from isolated teeth and a few lower jaws. Because of these fragmentary remains, their relationships are unclear.
Fossils have come from South America, India and Antarctica, where gondwanatherids once lived in the lush forests of the Eocene. Climate changes at the Eocene–Oligocene boundary may have caused their extinction.
Images for kids
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Life reconstruction of Vintana sertichi. Postcranial reconstruction is hypothetical.
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Gondwanatheria cladogram per Chimento et al. 2015.
See also
In Spanish: Gondwanatheria para niños
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