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Adalatherium Adàla Malagasy and therium , 'beast' in Greek ) is an extinct gondwanatherian that lived on Madagascar during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[1] Adalatherium skeleton from the Maevarano Formation was announced in April 2020.
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Although known fossil is estimated to be subadult individual, it had large skull reaching length 8.4 centimetres (3.3 in ), body length about 52 centimetres (20 in )[2] lb ), making it one the largest known Mesozoic mammals only exceeded by fellow Malagasy gondwanathere Vintana Repenomamus Patagomaia [1] foramina than any known mammal except Vincelestes [3]
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^ a b Krause, David W.; Hoffmann, Simone; Hu, Yaoming; Wible, John R.; Rougier, Guillermo W.; Kirk, E. Christopher; Groenke, Joseph R.; Rogers, Raymond R.; Rossie, James B.; Schultz, Julia A.; Evans, Alistair R. (2020-04-29). "Skeleton of a Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity" . Nature . 581 (7809): 421–427. doi :10.1038/s41586-020-2234-8 . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMID 32461642 . S2CID 216650606 .
^ "Madagascar's prehistoric 'crazy beast' sheds light on mammalian evolution" . India Today . Retrieved 2023-05-23 .
^ Krause, David W.; Hoffmann, Simone; Rossie, James B.; Hu, Yaoming; Wible, John R.; Rougier, Guillermo W.; Kirk, E. Christopher; Groenke, Joseph R. (2020-12-14). "Craniofacial morphology of Adalatherium hui (Mammalia, Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 40 doi :10.1080/02724634.2020.1808665 . ISSN 0272-4634 . S2CID 230968119 .
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