Novel dental pattern in a Mesozoic mammal

Therian mammals have two families of postcanine teeth,premolars and molars, which primitively are morphologically distinct, but within each family, structure of the crowns changes in an evenly graded series from mesial to distal loci. Here we report a new Mesozoic basal therian in which the boundary between premolars and molars istransi tional but the molars form three abruptly discontinuous morphological grouos. containinh m1, m2-4.