The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

Haramiyida was a successful clade of mammaliaforms, spanning the Late Triassic period to
at least the Late Jurassic period, but their fossils are scant outside Eurasia and Cretaceous …

In mammals, the infraorbital canal provides a passage for the infraorbital ramus of the
maxillary branch of the trigeminal nerve. The infraorbital nerve ensures tactile sensitivity of …

Background Body mass estimation is of paramount importance for paleobiological studies,
as body size influences numerous other biological parameters. In mammals, body mass has …

While most mammals have whiskers, some tactile specialists—mainly small, nocturnal, and
arboreal species—can actively move their whiskers in a symmetrical, cyclic movement …

There exist three key clades relevant to living mammals (Fig. 6.1). The first is Synapsida—
based on the total group, ie, any species more closely related to an opossum than to an …

The monophyletic clade Monotremata branches early from the rest of the mammalian crown
group in the Jurassic and members of this clade retain many ancestral mammalian traits …

Among the collections made during the 1896–1899 Princeton Expeditions to Patagonia are
three specimens with partial crania and postcrania of Necrolestes patagonensis Ameghino …