Magallanodon baikashkenke

IN NEWS:

• Chilean and Argentine researchers have unearthed teeth in far-flung Patagonia belonging to a mammal that lived 74 million years ago, the oldest such remains yet discovered in the South American country.

ABOUT MAGALLANODON:

• The teeth belonged to a species called Magallanodon baikashkenke, on a dig near Torres del Paine National Park, a remote area of Patagonia in chile famous for its glacier-capped Andean spires and frigid ocean waters.
• The small mammal would have lived in southern Patagonia during the late Cretaceous era, alongside dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and birds.
• It is the southernmost record of Gondwanatheria, a group of long-extinct early mammals that co-existed with dinosaurs.

PRELIMS QUESTION:

Q. Magallanodon baikashkenke, recently in news, is a fossil discovered in:

1. South America
2. Australia
3. Africa
4. Europe

 Answer to Prelims question