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Modern mammals have Harderian glands secreting lipids to coat their fur, but the telltale imprint of this structure is found only from the primitive mammal Morganucodon and onwards. Nonetheless, recent studies on Permian synapsid coprolites show that more basal therapsids may have had fur, and at any rate fur was already present in Mammaliaformes

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