GONDWANATHERIA

Magallanodon baikashkenke

• The small mammal would have lived in southern Patagonia during the late Cretaceous era, alongside dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and birds.
  
  
• It is the southernmost record of Gondwanatheria, a group of long-extinct early mammals that co-existed with dinosaurs. Gondwanatheria remains from the Cretaceous era are extremely rare.
  
  

Gondwanatheria

• 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.