The oldest known animal with mammalian-like teeth unearthed in Brazil

The oldest known animal with mammalian-like teeth unearthed in Brazil.
After around 10 million years in which the planet took to recover, the emerging terrestrial fauna of the Triassic Period was initially not so different from what came before.
In what would eventually become southern South America, large herbivorous synapsids known as dicynodonts became dominant.
These animals were not true mammals though, in that they likely had some sort of a beak in lieu of teeth and walked with a sprawling, lizard-like gait.
They were likely preyed upon by large predatory crocodile-like animals called thecodonds.
But scurrying around the feet of these relative giants was a much smaller animal.
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Initially discovered in the 1980s and known from a large number of near-complete specimens, it would not be until 2003 that scientists realised Brasilodon was its own species.