Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa

JT Faith - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the cause of late Quaternary mammal extinctions is the subject of intense
debate spanning the fields of archeology and paleontology. In the global context, the losses …

The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution

RJ Asher, N Bennett, T Lehmann - Bioessays, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
An unprecedented level of confidence has recently crystallized around a new hypothesis of
how living placental mammals share a pattern of common descent. The major groups are …

The placental mammal ancestor and the post–K-Pg radiation of placentals

MA O'Leary, JI Bloch, JJ Flynn, TJ Gaudin… - science, 2013 - science.org
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 …

[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 …

Variability in the middle stone age of eastern Africa

CA Tryon, JT Faith - Current Anthropology, 2013 - journals.uchicago.edu
Eastern Africa is an important area to study early populations of Homo sapiens because
subsets of those populations likely dispersed to Eurasia and subsequently throughout the …

The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin

CA Tryon, JT Faith, DJ Peppe, EJ Beverly… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Late Pleistocene sedimentary, biogeochemical, and fossil data from the Lake Victoria basin
(the largest lake in Africa) suggest that its reduction or desiccation during periods of …

New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov.(Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok …

JT Faith, R Potts, TW Plummer, LC Bishop… - Palaeogeography …, 2012 - Elsevier
The middle Pleistocene fossil mammal assemblage from Lainyamok in the southern Kenya
rift has previously been considered the oldest (330–392ka) African mammal community …

Hominins from the upper laetolil and upper ndolanya beds, laetoli

T Harrison - Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution …, 2011 - Springer
Renewed investigations at Laetoli in northern Tanzania have led to the recovery of a
number of new fossil hominins. A lower canine and a mandibular fragment from the Upper …

Phylogeny and conservation priorities of afrotherian mammals (Afrotheria, Mammalia)

M Kuntner, LJ May‐Collado, I Agnarsson - Zoologica Scripta, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Kuntner, M., May‐Collado, LJ & Agnarsson, I.(2010). Phylogeny and conservation priorities
of afrotherian mammals (Afrotheria, Mammalia).—Zoologica Scripta, 40, 1–15. Phylogenies …

[图书][B] A fossil history of southern African land mammals

DM Avery - 2019 - books.google.com
This reference provides comprehensive information on the taxonomy and distribution in time
and space of all currently recognized southern African fossil mammals. After an introductory …