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In the Upper Cretaceous unequivocal marsupials and placentals were in existence, and the early stages of mammalian evolution, which form the subject of this book, are definitely over. Hence only a brief mention of the faunas of the Upper Cretaceous will be made here. For those interested in these faunas, there is a good account and full references to the literature in Mesozoic Mammals (1979) (Lillegraven, Kielan-Jaworowska and Clemens (eds.), University of California Press, Berkeley).
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© 1984 Doris M. Kermack and Kenneth A. Kermack
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Kermack, D.M., Kermack, K.A. (1984). Epilogue. In: The Evolution of Mammalian Characters. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7817-4_10
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