Phylogenetic relationships and classification of didelphid marsupials, an extant radiation of New World metatherian mammals

RS Voss, SA Jansa - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2009 - BioOne
This report summarizes a decade of morphological and molecular research on the
phylogenetic relationships of didelphid marsupials (opossums), a substantially intact …

[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 …

On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small didelphid marsupials

RS Voss, DP Lunde, SA Jansa - American Museum Novitates, 2005 - BioOne
Five nominal species of small didelphid marsupials previously referred to Gracilinanus differ
conspicuously from the type species (G. microtarsus) and from all of the other valid taxa that …

A revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus Marmosa Part 1. The Species in Tate's 'Mexicana'and 'Mitis' sections and other closely related forms

RV Rossi, RS Voss, DP Lunde - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural …, 2010 - BioOne
We revise the nominal species of mouse opossums currently synonymized with Marmosa
mexicana, and M. robinsoni, which include all of the trans-Andean taxa currently assigned to …

Cranial anatomy of Andinodelphys cochabambensis, a stem metatherian from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia

C de Muizon, S Ladevèze - Geodiversitas, 2020 - BioOne
Andinodelphys cochabambensis Marshall & Muizon, 1988 is one of the best preserved
metatherian species from the early Palaeocene fauna of Tiupampa (Bolivia). It is …

[PDF][PDF] Osteology of Arctodictis sinclairi (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta) and phylogeny of Cenozoic metatherian carnivores from South America

AM Forasiepi - Monografías del Museo Argentino de Ciencias …, 2009 - academia.edu
The anatomy of Arctodictis sinclairi (Sparassodonta, Borhyaenidae) is studied in detail in
this work and constitutes the core of the present contribution. The specimen MLP 85-VII-3-1 …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution

CV Bennett, A Goswami - BMC biology, 2013 - Springer
Background In contrast to placental neonates, in which all cranial bones are ossified,
marsupial young have only the bones of the oral region and the exoccipital ossified at birth …

Comparative postnatal ontogeny of the skull in Dromiciops gliroides (Marsupialia: Microbiotheriidae)

NP Giannini, F Abdala, DA Flores - American Museum Novitates, 2004 - BioOne
Dromiciops gliroides is the single extant representative of the marsupial family
Microbiotheriidae. The importance of D. gliroides stems from its peculiar cranial anatomy …

The cranial morphospace of extant marsupials

NP Giannini, MM Morales, LAB Wilson… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2021 - Springer
Marsupials represent a major mammalian diversification today restricted geographically to
the Americas (but chiefly to the Neotropical Region) and Australasia. The group is highly …

A quantitative approach to the cranial ontogeny of the puma

NP Giannini, V Segura, MI Giannini, D Flores - Mammalian Biology, 2010 - Elsevier
The cranial ontogeny of specialized mammals is relevant to the understanding of the
connection of form and function in a developmental, ecological, and evolutionary context. As …