Asioryctitheria

Asioryctitheria ("Asian digging beasts") is an extinct order of early eutherians.

With the exception of Prokennalestes, these advanced forms lacked a Meckelian groove.

Furthermore, they were equipped with double-rooted canines, a lower premolar with a reduced or absent metaconid and a more elongated lower premolar than their predecessors.

In addition, the entoconid and hypoconulid on the lower molars are untwinned, the entotympanic is non-existent, the alisphenoid is enlarged, a Vidian foramen is present as well as a promontorium linked to the paroccipital process via the crista interfenestralis.

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