On the role of tectonics in stimulating the Cretaceous diversification of mammals

LN Weaver, JR Kelson, RM Holder, NA Niemi… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
… Here, because our focus is the initiation of diversification in the middle–Late Cretaceous,
we retain the shorthand of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) to broadly refer to this …

Untangling the multiple ecological radiations of early mammals

DM Grossnickle, SM Smith, GP Wilson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019 - cell.com
… The ecological diversification of early mammals is one of the most globally transformative …
and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) and end-Cretaceous mass extinction are …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary models for the diversification of placental mammals across the KPg boundary

MS Springer, NM Foley, PL Brady, J Gatesy… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, KPg mass extinction) in promoting the taxonomic and
ecomorphological diversification … models for the diversification of placental mammals, which are …

The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future

P Wilf, MR Carvalho, E Stiles - Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 - cambridge.org
… preventable, the sixth mass extinction could mirror the KPg event by eliminating comparable
… transforming terrestrial ecosystems while having little effect on global plant-family diversity. …

The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution buffered ants against extinction

C Jouault, FL Condamine… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
… periods of ant diversification: after the K/Pg boundary (… extinction (the Late Cretaceous,
100.5 to 66 Ma), all with significant shifts in net diversification rates (origination minus extinction

Shifts in trophic architecture and ecospace stability determining survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous

AA Chiarenza, J García-Girón, J Alahuhta… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
… that the Cretaceous/Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution was … in mammalian diversity through
the Late Cretaceous should … (2) the diversity of mountain-proximal mammalian assemblages …

No phylogenetic evidence for angiosperm mass extinction at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary

JB Thompson, S Ramírez-Barahona - Biology Letters, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Our Bayesian analyses of diversification through time provide … impact of the K-Pg on the
extinction of major angiosperm lineages. The analyses revealed relatively stable extinction rates …

Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes

GL Benevento, RBJ Benson, RA Close… - Palaeontology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… in diversity were also prominent among small-bodied mammals; a … of terrestrial ecosystems
over the K/Pg transition may be … mammal diversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. …

[HTML][HTML] Molecules and fossils tell distinct yet complementary stories of mammal diversification

NS Upham, JA Esselstyn, W Jetz - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
… , we compare mammalian diversification-rate signatures in a … We use fossil extinction rates
to correct or “push” the timetree-… ) between the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary and …

[HTML][HTML] Mammaliaform extinctions as a driver of the morphological radiation of Cenozoic mammals

N Brocklehurst, E Panciroli, GL Benevento… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
… , post-dating the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs at the K/Pg boundary, … diversity in
non-theriimorph mammaliaforms. This relaxation occurred even in small-bodied Cenozoic mammals