ABSTRACT The 'Age of Mammals' began in the Paleocene epoch, the 10 million year
interval immediately following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. The apparently …

To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

The supraordinal mammalian clade Afrotheria was first recognized in its entirety based on
DNA analysis dating to the mid-1990s. Since then, this “African clade”, which includes …

Rodentia is the largest order of placental mammals, with approximately 2,050 species
divided into 28 families. It is also one of the most controversial with respect to its monophyly …

Analyses of anatomical and DNA sequence data run on a parallel supercomputer that
include fossil taxa support the inclusion of tenrecs and golden moles in the Afrotheria, an …

Background The placental mammalian clade Afrotheria is now supported by diverse forms of
genomic data, but interordinal relationships within, and morphological support for, the group …

Conventional models,,, explaining extreme sexual ornaments propose that these reflect
male genetic quality,, or are arbitrary results of genetic linkage between female preference …

Elephants are the only living representatives of the Proboscidea, a formerly diverse
mammalian order whose history began with the 55-million years (mys) old Phosphatherium …