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Re: [dinosaur] Multituberculate extinction + Tetracynodon manus + Condorchelys

> Neil F. Adams , Emily J. Rayfield , Philip G. Cox , Samuel N. Cobb and Ian 
> J. Corfe (2019)
>
> Functional tests of the competitive exclusion hypothesis for multituberculate 
> extinction
> Royal Society Open Science 6: 181536
>[...]
>
> [...] Digital models of the skulls of four extant rodents and the Upper 
> Cretaceous multituberculate *Kryptobaatar* were constructed and used [...]

I suppose that's a good first step. What would be interesting is to repeat the 
exercise with Paleocene or Eocene representatives of both groups.

In particular, *Kryptobaatar* is a djadochtathere. That whole group didn't 
survive into the Cenozoic! Djadochtatheres and rodents never met...