Abstract
The anatomical study of several complete skeletons of the Eocene insectivore Macrocranion tupaiodon from the "Grube Messel" (Western Germany) allows to reconstruct a number of more relevant biological adaptations of this extinct mammal. Its size is to be compared with small squirrels or treeshrews; its limbs are significantly longer, however. Macrocranion is best characterized as an omnivorous, nocturnal forest-floor predator. © 1979 E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung.
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Maier, W. (1979). Macrocranion tupaiodon, an adapisoricid (?) Insectivore from the Eocene of “Grube Messel” (Western Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 53(1–2), 38–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987787
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