References & Sources  - October 17, 1998

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Wyoming wonder: Tiniest mammal ever?

Paleontologists have uncovered the jawbone of a 53-million-year-old mammal that weighed no more than a dollar bill.

 

References:

Bloch, J.I. 1998. Paleocene-Eocene microvertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming. Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. October. Snowbird, Utah.

 

Further Readings:

Bloch, J.I., K.D. Rose, and P.D. Gingerich. 1998. New species of batodonoides (lipotyphla, geolabididae) from the early Eocene of Wyoming: Smallest known mammal? Journal of Mammalogy 79:804.

 

Sources:

Jonathan I. Block
University of Michigan
Museum of Paleontology
Department of Geological Sciences
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 16, October 17, 1998, p. 255.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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