The Riversleigh fossil material suggests that " Notoryctes " was already well adapted for burrowing and probably lived in the rainforest that covered much of Australia at that time.
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For the northern marsupial mole, " Notoryctes caurinus " ( the chapter link goes to the MSW3 web page for the species entry, while the title link goes to the Google Books preview for MSW3 ).
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These specimens of " Yalkaparidon " exhibit a melange of characters : the molars are zalambdodont ( a distinctive tooth type also found in the marsupial mole " Notoryctes ", the living placental'insectivores "'Solenodon ", tenrecs and golden moles, as well as a number of fossil groups ); the incisors are very large and hypselodont ( open-rooted and hence ever-growing, similar to those of rodents ); the basicranial region of the only known skull is very primitive, somewhat similar to those of plesiomorphic bandicoots.
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