Protungulatum donnae
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Protungulatum
Sloan and Van Valen, 1965
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P. donnae
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Protungulatum donnae is the type species for the Protungulatum genus, an extinct early form of eutherian mammal. Though it is by no means the earliest mammal in the fossil record, a 2013 study considers P. donnae to be the oldest undisputed placental mammal fossil,[1][2] though more recent examinations conclude that it was a more basal eutherian and that no placental predates the Paleocene.[3]
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- ↑ Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals