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Fossils of Large Metatherian Mammal Found in Colorado


Paleontologists have found a fossilized jaw fragment and three isolated teeth from a new, relatively large (by Late Cretaceous standards) metatherian species in the layers of the Williams Fork Formation in northwestern Colorado, the United States.

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