Multituberculate mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia, Russia, and the origin of Multituberculata

Averianov, Alexander O.; Martin, Thomas; Лопатин, А. В.; Schultz, Julia A.; Schellhorn, Rico; Krasnolutskii, Sergei; Skutschas, Pavel P.; Ivantsov, S. V.

doi:10.1002/spp2.1317

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“…A key difference between the Itat and Kilmaluag formations is that the former has yielded multiple haramiyidan taxa (Averianov et al 2011, 2019), a group that is so far absent from the Kilmaluag Formation, although five haramiyidan species are present in the Forest Marble Formation. The Itat Formation has recently yielded two multituberculates taxa (Averianov et al 2020), but none are present in the Kilmaluag Formation.…”

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Diverse vertebrate assemblage of the Kilmaluag Formation (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Skye, Scotland

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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The Kilmaluag Formation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, provides one of the richest Mesozoic vertebrate fossil assemblages in the UK, and is among the richest globally for Middle Jurassic tetrapods. Since its discovery in 1971, this assemblage has predominantly yielded small-bodied tetrapods, including salamanders, choristoderes, lepidosaurs, turtles, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, non-mammalian cynodonts and mammals, alongside abundant fish and invertebrates. It is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and by Nature Conservancy Order. Unlike contemporaneous localities from England, this assemblage yields associated partial skeletons, providing unprecedented new data. We present a comprehensive updated overview of the Kilmaluag Formation, including its geology and the fossil collections made to date, with evidence of several species occurrences presented here for the first time. We place the vertebrate faunal assemblage in an international context through comparisons with relevant contemporaneous localities from the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. This wealth of material reveals the Kilmaluag Formation as a vertebrate fossil assemblage of global significance, both in terms of understanding Middle Jurassic faunal composition and the completeness of specimens, with implications for the early evolutionary histories of mammals, squamates and amphibians.

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Section: Itat Formation Russiamentioning

confidence: 99%