Early mammalian social behaviour revealed by multituberculates from a dinosaur nesting site

@article{Weaver2020EarlyMS,
  title={Early mammalian social behaviour revealed by multituberculates from a dinosaur nesting site},
  author={Lucas N. Weaver and David J. Varricchio and Eric J. Sargis and Meng Chen and William J. Freimuth and Gregory P. Wilson Mantilla},
  journal={Nature Ecology \& Evolution},
  year={2020},
  volume={5},
  pages={32-37}
}
When sociality evolved and in which groups remain open questions in mammalian evolution, largely due to the fragmentary Mesozoic mammal fossil record. Nevertheless, exceptionally preserved fossils collected in well-constrained geologic and spatial frameworks can provide glimpses into these more fleeting aspects of early mammalian behaviour. Here we report on exceptional specimens of a multituberculate, Filikomys primaevus gen. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Montana, primarily occurring as… 
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