[Rockhounds] Weird reptile-like mammal species discovered in Utah

[Paul]

Weird reptile-like mammal species discovered amid
  ancient Utah dinosaur bones by David DeMille,
USA Today, The Spectrum, May 30, 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/30/reptile-mammal-species-fossil-utah-pangea/654547002/

Scientists discover the fossilized skull of a mammal-like
critter under a dinosaur’s foot in Utah — and then it gets
even weirder, The Salt Lake Tribune, May 30, 2018
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/05/29/scientists-discover-the-fossilized-skull-of-a-mammal-like-critter-under-a-dinosaurs-foot-in-utah-and-then-it-gets-even-weirder/


Why you should care about this 130-million-year-old fossil
The ancient find, unearthed in Utah, bridges the transition
from reptiles to the beginning of mammals and changes our
view of continental drift, too By Zen Vuong, USC News, May 23, 2018
https://news.usc.edu/143411/why-you-should-care-about-this-130-million-year-old-fossil/

The this paper is:

Adam K. Huttenlocker; David M. Grossnickle; James I. Kirkland;
Julia A. Schultz; Zhe-Xi Luo (2018). "Late-surviving stem
mammal links the lowermost Cretaceous of North America and
Gondwana". Nature. in press. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0126-y.

Yours,

Paul H.