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Re: Cretaceous taeniodont

David Marjanovic wrote:

> But the shift from shrew-sized mammals to
> wolverine-sized mammals in Cretaceous mammal dimensions (in North America,
> anyway) may have been due to some anatomical innovation(s) in the
placental
> lineage.

Not in the placental lineage -- *Didelphodon* is a close relative of the
marsupials. And *Gobiconodon* and *Repenomamus*, of course, are something
else entirely...

Yep, you're right. _Gobiconodon_ and _Repenomamus_ are triconodonts. _Didephodon_ I have a stagodontid metatherian. I don't know why I wrote "placental lineage" - I should have written "mammal lineage" (which is what I meant).

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