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. 2024 Nov 19;14(1):28632.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-78400-8.

Patagomaia could be a gondwanatherian

Hans P Püschel  1   2 , Agustín G Martinelli  3   4 , Sergio Soto-Acuña  3   5 , Alexander O Vargas  3   5
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Patagomaia could be a gondwanatherian

Hans P Püschel et al. Sci Rep. .
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Right femora of Patagomaia (MPM-PV-23365) and Adalatherium (UA 9030; left femur mirrored). Femur of Patagomaia in anterior (a), posterior (c), lateral (f), medial (h), proximal (i), and distal (k) views. Femur of Adalatherium in anterior (b), posterior (d), lateral (e), medial (g), proximal (j), and distal (l) views. fh, femoral head; fn, femoral neck; gtr, greater trochanter; lfc, lateral femoral condyle; ltr, lesser trochanter; mfc, medial femoral condyle; itrc, intertrochanteric crest; ptg, patellar groove. Scale bar = 2 cm.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Parsimony and Bayesian phylogenies. (a) Strict consensus tree of the phylogenetic analyses including new scorings for Patagomaia (Table 1). We found 280 trees with 2305 steps. The consistency index was 0.303 and the retention index was 0.703. Node support is indicated with absolute Bremer support. (b) 50% majority rule tree of the Bayesian analysis. Node support is indicated with Bayesian posterior probabilities. None of these phylogenies suggests a particularly close affinity between Patagomaia and therians. In both trees, Patagomaia is highlighted in red, ferugliotheriids in dark green, gondwanatherians excluding ferugliotheriids (Galulatherium, Adalatherium and sudamericids) in light green, multituberculates in purple, euharamiyidans in dark blue, and therians in orange.
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