Background Integration of diverse data (molecules, fossils) provides the most robust test of
the phylogeny of cetaceans. Positioning key fossils is critical for reconstructing the character …

Maelestes gobiensis, is the second new eutherian mammal to be named from the rich
Mongolian Late Cretaceous locality of Ukhaa Tolgod, Ukhaatherium nessovi, being the first …

Pakicetus inachus from the early Eocene of Pakistan is the oldest and most primitive
cetacean known. The dentition of Pakicetus resembles that of carnivorous mesonychid land …

Early Cenozoic sedimentary rocks exposed in the Kohat Plateau of northwestern Pakistan
record tectonic closure of the Tethys sea and development of a restricted marine basin that …

The origin of late Neogene Hippopotamidae (Artiodactyla) involves one of the most serious
conflicts between comparative anatomy and molecular biology: is Artiodactyla paraphyletic …

Several scenarios have been proposed to explain rapid net size increases in some early
Cenozoic mammalian lineages: sustained and gradual directional change, successive …

The phylogenetic position of Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) is an important
exemplar problem for combined data parsimony analyses because the clade is ancient and …

Anthracobunidae is an Eocene family of large mammals from south Asia that is commonly
considered to be part of the radiation that gave rise to elephants (proboscideans) and sea …

In recent years, a series of discoveries of a diverse early Eocene (~ 54.5 Ma) terrestrial
mammal fauna from the open-cast lignite mines of western India (District Surat, Gujarat) …

Abstract Knowledge of the phylogenetic position of the order Cetacea (whales, dolphins,
and porpoises) within Mammalia is of central importance to evolutionary biologists studying …