Eomaia scansoria
= Eomaia scansoria
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An approximately 125-million-year-old Early <Cretaceous> mammal commonly analysed as a stem <eutherian>. Its informative skeleton combines <eutherian> affinities, <epipubic bones> and evidence of climbing adaptations. <The earliest known eutherian mammal by Qiang Ji and others>[Nature 416, pp. 816–822; Eomaia skeleton and stem-eutherian character combination]{ref}