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    Morganucodon ("Glamorgan tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived from the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic. It first appeared about 205 million...
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  • controversial. Kühne considered Eozostrodon to be "one and the same" with Morganucodon which he described from thousands of fossils he collected in Wales, albeit...
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    35 in) Hadrocodium must have had fur, therefore, but the 10 cm (3.94 in) Morganucodon might not have needed it. The docodont Castorocauda, further removed...
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    whereas estimates of blood flow rate and lifespan in the mammaliaform Morganucodon suggest that even early mammaliaforms had reptile-like metabolic rates...
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    telltale imprint of this structure is only found from the primitive mammal Morganucodon and onwards. Nonetheless, recent studies on Permian synapsid coprolites...
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    suggesting that they didn't have the same reproductive constraints. Morganucodon at least appears to have had a long lifespan and a lower metabolism than...
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  • resembled early mammaliaforms like Morganucodon, but it is regarded as more basal, differing substantially from Morganucodon in its dentition and growth habits...
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    this structure are found in the skull of the small early mammals like Morganucodon, but not in their cynodont ancestors like Thrinaxodon. The hairs of the...
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    humans is part of the temporal bone. Recently found fossils such as Morganucodon show intermediary steps of middle ear evolution. A new morganucodontan-like...
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    other non-mammalian cynodonts more basal than Castorocauda, such as Morganucodon, had Harderian glands, which are associated with the grooming and maintenance...
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