A fact from Nanictidopidae appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 January 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a group of Late Permian mammal relatives called Nanictidopidae(restoration pictured) may have eaten fruit because their small teeth were unsuitable for grinding most plant material?
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What was producing enough fruit to support a sizeable population of these creatures during the Permian Period? There is no mention of fruit bearing plants in the Wikipedia article on the Permian Period. Would it not be more likely that these creatures were consuming some other soft food, such as molluscs or even arthropods? -- Brothernight (talk) 01:55, 13 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
I'm wondering that, too, but the paper said frugivory. There were a lot of conifers in the Permian, so the "fruit" may be seeds or cones. But then I wonder why the paper didn't use granivory, which is eating seeds. Smokeybjb (talk) 16:50, 13 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
