Sentences with phrase «fossil endocasts»

Not exact matches

The study casts doubt on a 2014 paper by Falk that was based on casts of the inside of fossil braincases, called endocasts, which preserve impressions of these surface features.

Then they compared the two endocasts with those for seven fossils of early cynodonts — carnivorous reptiles that are close relatives of the first mammals — as well as with endocasts for 27 other primitive mammals that lived between 65 million and 190 million years ago and with the brains of 270 living mammals.