Ferugliotherium was a mammal of the Late Cretaceous, around 70 million years ago. The genus was first described in 1986 but misidentified as a member of Multituberculata, an extinct group of rodent-like mammals, on the basis of a single tooth, a low-crowned molar. It is thought to have had a small body mass, about 70 g (2.5 oz), and may have eaten insects and plant material. Its remains have been found in two geological formations of present-day southern Argentina, as part of a mammal fauna that included the sudamericid Gondwanatherium and a variety of dryolestoids. The upper and lower incisors were long and rodent-like, with enamel on only one side of the crown. A fragment of the lower jaw shows that the tooth socket of the lower incisor was very long. Although Ferugliotherium had much lower-crowned teeth than the sudamericids, they shared the same backward jaw movement during chewing and essentially similar patterns in their incisors and on the chewing surface of their molar-like teeth, with small enamel prisms.

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44 BC:

Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar

1875:

Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCloskey

1917:

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution

1943:

World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov

1990:

Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farzad_Bazoft

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