In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

Platyrrhine primates and caviomorph rodents are clades of mammals that colonized South
America during its period of isolation from the other continents, between 100 and 3 million …

Recent fossil discoveries, phylogenetic analyses, revised reconstructions of continental drift,
and accumulating molecular evidence have all yielded new information relating to …

Background The best European locality for complete Eocene mammal skeletons is Grube
Messel, near Darmstadt, Germany. Although the site was surrounded by a para-tropical rain …

We review an ungulate mammalian fauna of the Eocene Pondaung Formation, central
Myanmar, and herein describe new dental specimens. The taxa newly recognized in the …

Adaptive shifts associated with human origins are brought to light as we examine the human
fossil record and study our own genome and that of our closest ape relatives. However, the …

Undisputed anthropoids appear in the fossil record of Africa and Asia by the middle Eocene,
about 45 Ma. Here, we report the discovery of an early Eocene eosimiid anthropoid primate …

ABSTRACT A laterally sloping fibular facet of the astragalus (= talus) has been proposed as
one of few osteological synapomorphies of strepsirrhine primates, but the feature has never …

Abstract The Late Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, central Myanmar hosts the richest
deposit of terrestrial mammals in SE Asia. The Pondaung Formation contains anthropoid …

Asian tarsiid and sivaladapid primates maintained relictual distributions in southern Asia
long after the extirpation of their close Holarctic relatives near the Eocene–Oligocene …