Documentary about the early and "primitive" mammals before Marsupials and Placental mammals.
Music by White Bat audio https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio
Illustrations by Satoshi Kawasaki and Ceri Thomas
Icons next to names indicate the diet :
🪲 Terrestrial arthropods
🪱 Invertebrates
🐟 Fish
🦀 Aquatic arthropods
🦎 Small vertebrates
🥩 Meat
💀 Carrion
🌿 Vegetation
🍇 Fruits
🌰 Seeds
🌾 Grass
🌱 Seaweed
The whole playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZFljdk_R2daQUpjwiAOvjlP8M0rt5a8H&si=KxlNRoF17xooT5Rt
Sources and more informations about the animals shown :
Haldanodon - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Investigated-skulls-of-the-docodont-Haldanodon-exspectatus-in-ventral-view-A-specimen_fig1_235977015
Castorocauda - https://www.britannica.com/animal/Castorocauda
Asfaltomylos - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4825543.html
Steropodon - https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/steropodon-galmani/
Obdurodon - https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/obdurodon-dicksoni/
Platypus - https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/platypus/
Hackett's giant echidna - https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Zaglossus-hacketti
Short-beaked echidna - https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/short-beaked-echidna/
Fruitafossor - http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=91356
Repenomamus - https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/r/repenomamus.html
Liaoconodon - https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/l/liaoconodon.html
Volaticotherium - https://carnegiemnh.org/mesozoic-monthly-volaticotherium/
Megaconus - https://news.uchicago.edu/story/fossil-indicates-hairy-squirrel-sized-creature-was-not-quite-mammal
Adalatherium - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347727539_Introduction_to_Adalatherium_hui_Gondwanatheria_Mammalia_from_the_Late_Cretaceous_of_Madagascar
Rugosodon - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/130815-multituberculate-rugosodon-early-mammal-evolution
Catopsbaatar - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4831417.html
Barbatodon - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Barbatodon-transylvanicus-Maastrichtian-Pui-Romania-specimen-UBB-P-Mt-1-Partial_fig4_280088978
Kogaionon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogaionon_ungureanui
Litovoi - https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-surprising-importance-of-litovois-tiny-brain/
Catopsalis - http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=39829
Sinoconodon - http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/s/sinoconodon.html
Zhangheotherium - https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/z/zhangheotherium.html
Cronopio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio_dentiacutus
Necrolestes - https://www.sci.news/paleontology/article00737.html
Coloniatherium - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8697078.html
Paurodon - http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=39888
Eomaia - https://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/e/eomaia.html
Lotheridium - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8677050.html
Patagonia - https://uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/347141-Patagonia-peregrina
Pucadelphys - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4826809.html
Anatoliadelphys - https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Anatoliadelphys-maasae
Juramaia - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-your-newest-ancestor/
Sinodelphys - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sinodelphys-szalayi-gen-et-sp-nov-A-Holotype-Chinese-Academy-of-Geological_fig1_8963678
Zalambdalestes - http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/z/zalambdalestes.html
Barylambda - https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Barylambda-faberi
Coryphodon - https://www.britannica.com/animal/Coryphodon
Palaeosinopa - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P40285.html
Schowalteria - https://www.jstor.org/stable/44865967
Psittacotherium - http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=40619
Stylinodon - https://www.jstor.org/stable/4522849
Gypsonictops - http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=40255
Leptictidium - http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/l/leptictidium.html
0:00 Introduction
0:35 Docodonta
2:05 Yinotheria
2:45 Monotremata
7:05 Theriimorpha
7:40 Eutriconodonta
9:55 Allotheria
11:35 Multituberculata
15:25 Trechnotheria
16:50 Cladotheria
19:15 Tribosphenida
20:10 Metatheria
23:05 Eutheria
25:10 Cimolesta
29:15 Leptictida