[HTML][HTML] The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

DK Hutchinson, HK Coxall, DJ Lunt… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

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
events in Earth's history and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) and end …

A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution

NM Foley, VC Mason, AJ Harris, KR Bredemeyer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental
mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of …

A new time tree reveals Earth history's imprint on the evolution of modern birds

S Claramunt, J Cracraft - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined
DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

[HTML][HTML] Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials

RMD Beck, RS Voss, SA Jansa - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2022 - BioOne
The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

PO Antoine, MA Abello, S Adnet, AJA Sierra, P Baby… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide a synopsis of~ 60 million years of life history in Neotropical lowlands, based on
a comprehensive survey of the Cenozoic deposits along the Quebrada Cachiyacu near …

Heterogeneity in global vegetation and terrestrial climate change during the late Eocene to early Oligocene transition

MJ Pound, U Salzmann - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Rapid global cooling at the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT),~ 33.9–33.5 Ma, is widely
considered to mark the onset of the modern icehouse world. A large and rapid drop in …

Splendid innovation: the extinct South American native ungulates

DA Croft, JN Gelfo, GM López - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
A remarkable diversity of plant-eating mammals known as South American native ungulates
(SANUs) flourished in South America for most of the Cenozoic. Although some of these …

Paleogene Xenarthra and the evolution of South American mammals

TJ Gaudin, DA Croft - Journal of Mammalogy, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies show Xenarthra to be even more isolated systematically from other placental
mammals than traditionally thought. The group not only represents 1 of 4 primary placental …