The mandible and dentition of the Early Cretaceous monotreme Teinolophos trusleri

TH Rich, JA Hopson, PG Gill, P Trusler… - Alcheringa: An …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Rich, TH, Hopson, JA, Gill, PG, Trusler, P., Rogers-Davidson, S., Morton, S., Cifelli, RL,
Pickering, D., Kool, L., Siu, K., Burgmann, FA, Senden, T., Evans, AR, Wagstaff, BE, Seegets …

The middle ear in multituberculate mammals

JH Hurum, R Presley… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 1996 - agro.icm.edu.pl
The ear ossicles, preserved in skulls of a tiny Late Cretaceous multituberculate
Chulsanbaatar vulgaris from Mongolia are arranged as in modem mammals. This makes the …

Earliest eutherian ear region: a petrosal referred to Prokennalestes from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia

JR Wible, GW Rougier, MJ Novacek… - American Museum …, 2001 - BioOne
A right petrosal from the? Aptian or Albian Khoobur locality is referred on the basis of size
and morphology to Prokennalestes trofimovi, the earliest eutherian previously known only …

Erlianomys combinatus, a primitive myodont rodent from the eocene arshanto formation, Nuhetingboerhe, nei mongol, China

LI Qian, M Jin - Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 2010 - vertpala.ac.cn
A new myodont rodent is reported from the lower part of the Arshanto Formation in
Nuhetingboerhe of Nei Mongol, which represents one of the earliest and most primitive …

Periotic anatomy of Arsinoitherium (Mammalia, Embrithopoda) and its phylogenetic implications

N Court - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
The description of two previously unknown petrosal specimens of Arsinoitherium highlights
a number of derived ungulate characteristics. A phylogenetic analysis based on ungulate …

Inner ear evolution in primates through the Cenozoic: implications for the evolution of hearing

MN Coleman, DM Boyer - The Anatomical Record: Advances …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Mammals are unique in being the only group of amniotes that can hear sounds in the upper
frequency range (> 12 kHz), yet details about the evolutionary development of hearing …

Petrosal morphology and cochlear function in Mesozoic stem therians

T Harper, GW Rougier - PLoS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Here we describe the bony anatomy of the inner ear and surrounding structures seen in
three plesiomorphic crown mammalian petrosal specimens. Our study sample includes the …

New discovery of an Upper Paleolithic auditory ossicle: the right malleus of Nazlet Khater 2

I Crevecoeur - Journal of human evolution, 2007 - Elsevier
The Nazlet Khater 2 (NK 2) skeleton was discovered in 1980 near Tahta in Upper Egypt by
the Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project (BMEPP; Vermeersch et al., 1984). This burial …

[PDF][PDF] A fossil stapes from Sterkfontein, South Africa, and the hearing capabilities of early hominids

J Moggi-Cecchi, M Collard - Journal of Human Evolution, 2002 - sfu.ca
The three small bones of the human middle ear—the malleus, incus and stapes—have been
the subject of research since the mid fifteenth century (Arensburg et al., 1981) …

Mesozoic mammals of China: implications for phylogeny and early evolution of mammals

J Meng - National Science Review, 2014 - academic.oup.com
All Mesozoic mammaliaforms reported from China are briefly documented herein. These
forms can be divided into at least five major assemblages: Lufeng, Yanliao (Daohugou) …