On the role of tectonics in stimulating the Cretaceous diversification of mammals

LN Weaver, JR Kelson, RM Holder, NA Niemi… - Earth-science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mammals rose to prominence in terrestrial ecosystems after the Cretaceous–Paleogene
mass extinction, but the mammalian lineages characteristic of Paleogene faunas began their …

No consistent shift in leaf dry mass per area across the Cretaceous—Paleogene boundary

MJ Butrim, DL Royer, IM Miller, M Dechesne… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Chicxulub bolide impact has been linked to a mass extinction of plants at the
Cretaceous—Paleogene boundary (KPB;∼ 66 Ma), but how this extinction affected plant …

New records of early Paleocene (earliest Torrejonian) plesiadapiforms from northeastern Montana, USA, provide a window into the diversification of stem primates

BT Hovatter, SGB Chester, GPW Mantilla - Journal of Human Evolution, 2024 - Elsevier
Plesiadapiforms (putative stem primates) appear in the fossil record shortly after the
Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary and subsequently radiated throughout the Paleocene into …

New mammalian local faunas from the first ca. 80 ka of the Paleocene in northeastern Montana and a revised model of biotic recovery from the Cretaceous …

JR Claytor, LN Weaver, TS Tobin… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The earliest phases of mammalian recovery following the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg)
mass extinction are incompletely known but crucial to understanding the development of …