Claim

The claim concerns holotype IMMNH-PV01700, a nearly complete but incomplete Early Cretaceous skeleton from Liaoning dated to approximately 120 million years ago; polyphyodonty is inferred from tooth replacement patterns, while semiaquatic locomotion is a comparative CVA inference based on 124 extant species and nine semiaquatic reference species.

Type OBSERVATIONAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 25426

47 words; atomic claims are usually under 25a conjunction joins clauses that may be separately evaluablea comma-separated series may list several propositions

Referenced 93 times: checked 0, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 93, shared 0. A count of attention, not evidence.

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Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9955 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

3 of 4 review checks done · 1 counted · 2 by the author only

3 independent evidence lineages · review checks 1 of 4 · stability HIGH

Main unresolved issue: 3 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:303c930b-d8a0-8a38-bfa2-c6a9c889133c

Not yet independently audited.Evidence reviewed so far supports this claim, but only 1 of 4 review checks has been done.

Related: NARROWS outgoing: Supported

Why?

Strongest counted support: The article identifies one incomplete holotype from Liaoning and dates its formation to approximately 120 million years ago. weight 1.800000 evidence

Review gaps: qualifiers reviewed, opposing search done, independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.

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Evidence for

The article identifies one incomplete holotype from Liaoning and dates its formation to approximately 120 million years ago.

From A polyphyodont, semiaquatic eutriconodontan mammal from the Early Cretaceous of China Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
The article explicitly presents tooth-generation and semiaquatic conclusions as interpretations from observed morphology and locomotor analysis.

From A polyphyodont, semiaquatic eutriconodontan mammal from the Early Cretaceous of China Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
The locomotor comparison used 13 indices measured across 124 extant species, including nine semiaquatic species.

From A polyphyodont, semiaquatic eutriconodontan mammal from the Early Cretaceous of China Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

None.

Inferences

Concluded from

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Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

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Review checklist

Review checks: 1 of 4

2 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	no
opposing search done	no
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	73e6b685, 61f1c402, e8db93dc

Summary

Supported. The main support is: The article identifies one incomplete holotype from Liaoning and dates its formation to approximately 120 million years ago. 1092f75e

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. ed1451a7

Review checks: 1 of 4. coverage:303c930b-d8a0-8a38-bfa2-c6a9c889133c

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Contribution history

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25426	APPENDED
25427	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
25435	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)