In HE, the suborder Gondwanatheria is known only from a few hypsodont teeth (resembling those of e. g. horses, with a very high tooth crown) and one lower jaw from India, Madagascar and South America, and Antarctica. This distribution, matching the outlines of the ancient southern supercontinent, Gondwana, has earned the gondwanatheres their name, and reflects the fact that HE paleontologists knew almost nothing about these mammals aside from their home range. Pretty much all that can be said for sure from the few scattered teeth and single lower jaw bone is that the gondwanatheres were gnawing mammals that ate something hard and abrasive, such as grass. However, since grass had only begun to evolve by the end of the Eocene, at which point all gondwanathere material disappears, this hypoth
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| - In HE, the suborder Gondwanatheria is known only from a few hypsodont teeth (resembling those of e. g. horses, with a very high tooth crown) and one lower jaw from India, Madagascar and South America, and Antarctica. This distribution, matching the outlines of the ancient southern supercontinent, Gondwana, has earned the gondwanatheres their name, and reflects the fact that HE paleontologists knew almost nothing about these mammals aside from their home range. Pretty much all that can be said for sure from the few scattered teeth and single lower jaw bone is that the gondwanatheres were gnawing mammals that ate something hard and abrasive, such as grass. However, since grass had only begun to evolve by the end of the Eocene, at which point all gondwanathere material disappears, this hypoth
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| - In HE, the suborder Gondwanatheria is known only from a few hypsodont teeth (resembling those of e. g. horses, with a very high tooth crown) and one lower jaw from India, Madagascar and South America, and Antarctica. This distribution, matching the outlines of the ancient southern supercontinent, Gondwana, has earned the gondwanatheres their name, and reflects the fact that HE paleontologists knew almost nothing about these mammals aside from their home range. Pretty much all that can be said for sure from the few scattered teeth and single lower jaw bone is that the gondwanatheres were gnawing mammals that ate something hard and abrasive, such as grass. However, since grass had only begun to evolve by the end of the Eocene, at which point all gondwanathere material disappears, this hypothesis hardly sheds any light on these mammals. The species from which the partial jaw comes is thought to have led a rodent-like life in swamps, rather like a modern Spec mangrove beaver, but certainty at this point is impossible.
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