Re: BIG MAMMAL TRAMPLES DEAD DINOSAUR! :-o

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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Subject: BIG MAMMAL TRAMPLES DEAD DINOSAUR! :-o


> The track's digit I
> impression closely resembles what might be produced by an opposable (or
> quasi-opposable) thumb, making me wonder if it could be the track of a
very
> early marsupial.
> [...]
> Whether by pes or manus, the track surely was made by the right side of
the
> animal.

Any chance it's the left side, and that the "thumb" is an offset digit 5
like seen in *Jeholodens*, so the animal could be something like the
gigantic *Repenomamus*? *Gobiconodon* had an Asiamerican distribution, so
maybe the closely related and coeval *R.* shared this.