Whales are first found in the fossil record approximately 52.5 million years ago (Mya) during
the early Eocene in Indo-Pakistan. Our knowledge of early and middle Eocene whales has …

▪ Abstract The history of carnivorous mammals is characterized by a series of rise-and-fall
patterns of diversification in which declining clades are replaced by phylogenetically distinct …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

This new text provides an integrated view of the forces that influence the patterns and rates
of vertebrate evolution from the level of living populations and species to those that resulted …

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

Rhombomylus is a gliroid mammal endemic to several early Eocene localities of central and
eastern Asia. It is best represented by a collection of numerous jaws and teeth, dozens of …

The Nagssugtoqidian Orogen of West Greenland represents a belt of Palaeoproterozoic
deformation and metamorphism between the North Atlantic Craton of South Greenland and …

Morphological and stratigraphic evidence indicates that land-living mesonychian ungulates
are broadly ancestral to early amphibious and later aquatic cetaceans. The transition from …

The oldest known “condylarth” fauna of the Tertiary of South America comes from basal
Palaeocene strata of the Santa Lucía Formation at Tiupampa (Bolivia). It includes five …

The phylogenetic position of Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) is an important
exemplar problem for combined data parsimony analyses because the clade is ancient and …