Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

TJD Halliday, P Upchurch, A Goswami - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The 'Age of Mammals' began in the Paleocene epoch, the 10 million year
interval immediately following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. The apparently …

Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

OC Bertrand, SL Shelley, TE Williamson, JR Wible… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mammals are the most encephalized vertebrates, with the largest brains relative to body
size. Placental mammals have particularly enlarged brains, with expanded neocortices for …

[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 …

Ancient collagen reveals evolutionary history of the endemic South American 'ungulates'

M Buckley - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the late eighteenth century, fossils of bizarre extinct creatures have been described
from the Americas, revealing a previously unimagined chapter in the history of mammals …

Alcidedorbignya inopinata, a basal pantodont (Placentalia, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia: anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology

C De Muizon, G Billet, C Argot, S Ladevèze… - Geodiversitas, 2015 - BioOne
Alcidedorbignya inopinata is a basal pantodont (Placentalia, Mammalia) of small body size,
from the early Palaeocene of the Santa Lucia Formation at Tiupampa, Bolivia. Tiupampa is …

Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India

KD Rose, LT Holbrook, RS Rana, K Kumar… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Cambaytheres (Cambaytherium, Nakusia and Kalitherium) are recently discovered
early Eocene placental mammals from the Indo–Pakistan region. They have been assigned …

Dispersal of African mammals in Eurasia during the Cenozoic: ways and whys

S Sen - Geobios, 2013 - Elsevier
Several groups of mammals originated in Africa and then immigrated to Eurasia during
some intervals of the Cenozoic, thus greatly contributing to the mammalian biodiversity in …

Dental data perform relatively poorly in reconstructing mammal phylogenies: morphological partitions evaluated with molecular benchmarks

RS Sansom, MA Wills, T Williams - Systematic Biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic trees underpin reconstructions of evolutionary history and tests of evolutionary
hypotheses. They are inferred from both molecular and morphological data, yet the relative …

First Clarkforkian equivalent land mammal age in the latest Paleocene basal Sparnacian facies of Europe: fauna, flora, paleoenvironment and (bio) stratigraphy

T Smith, F Quesnel, G De Plöeg, D De Franceschi… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is correlated with the first occurrences of
earliest modern mammals in the Northern Hemisphere. The latest Paleocene Clarkforkian …

Petrosal and inner ear anatomy and allometry amongst specimens referred to Litopterna (Placentalia)

G Billet, C De Muizon, R Schellhorn, I Ruf… - Zoological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
New isolated petrosals from the Itaboraí beds of Brazil (late Palaeocene or early Eocene)
are here described and referred to the early diverging litoptern Miguelsoria parayirunhor …