Evolving between land and water: key questions on the emergence and history of the Hippopotamidae (Hippopotamoidea, Cetancodonta, Cetartiodactyla)

JR Boisserie, RE Fisher, F Lihoreau… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The fossil record of the Hippopotamidae can shed light on three major issues in mammalian
evolution. First, as the Hippopotamidae are the extant sister group of Cetacea, gaining a …

Deep time and the search for anthropoid origins

ER Miller, GF Gunnell, RD Martin - American Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Recent fossil discoveries, phylogenetic analyses, revised reconstructions of continental drift,
and accumulating molecular evidence have all yielded new information relating to …

The position of Hippopotamidae within Cetartiodactyla

JR Boisserie, F Lihoreau… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The origin of late Neogene Hippopotamidae (Artiodactyla) involves one of the most serious
conflicts between comparative anatomy and molecular biology: is Artiodactyla paraphyletic …

Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of the earliest known hippopotamids (Cetartiodactyla, Hippopotamidae, Kenyapotaminae)

JR Boisserie, F Lihoreau, M Orliac… - Zoological Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The earliest known hippopotamids, attributed to the subfamily Kenyapotaminae, are known
essentially from dental remains of two species. The first was found in the middle Miocene of …

New remains of primitive ruminants from Thailand: evidence of the early evolution of the Ruminantia in Asia

G Métais, Y Chaimanee, JJ Jaeger… - Zoologica Scripta, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A new tragulid, Archaeotragulus krabiensis, gen. n. et sp. n., is described from the late
Eocene Krabi Basin (south Thailand). It represents the oldest occurrence of the family which …

Early Miocene hippopotamids (Cetartiodactyla) constrain the phylogenetic and spatiotemporal settings of hippopotamid origin

M Orliac, JR Boisserie, L MacLatchy… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The affinities of the Hippopotamidae are at the core of the phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla
(even-toed mammals: cetaceans, ruminants, camels, suoids, and hippos). Molecular …

Late Paleogene rifting along the Malay Peninsula thickened crust

B Sautter, M Pubellier, P Jousselin, P Dattilo… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
Sedimentary basins often develop above internal zones of former orogenic belts. We
hereafter consider the Malay Peninsula (Western Sunda) as a crustal high separating two …

First central American record of Anthracotheriidae (Mammalia, Bothriodontinae) from the early Miocene of Panama

AF Rincon, JI Bloch, BJ Macfadden… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new species of bothriodontine anthracothere, Arretotherium meridionale, is
described from the early Miocene (Arikareean North America Land Mammal Age) Las …

Quantitative analyses of biogeography and faunal evolution of middle to late Eocene mammals in East Asia

T Tsubamoto, M Takai, N Egi - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The biogeography and faunal evolution of middle to late Eocene mammals throughout East
Asia is assessed. Appearance Event Ordination was used to get a reliable temporal …

A new anthracotheriid artiodactyl from Myanmar, and the relative ages of the Eocene anthropoid primate-bearing localities of Thailand (Krabi) and Myanmar …

S Ducrocq, AN Soe, AK Aung, M Benammi… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A fragmentary maxillar of a small anthracotheriid has been discovered in the
middle Eocene locality of Kyawdaw in the Pondaung Formation (Myanmar). This specimen …