Skeleton of an unusual, cat-sized marsupial relative (Metatheria: Marsupialiformes) from the middle Eocene (Lutetian: 44-43 million years ago) of Turkey

Evolution of the patellar sesamoid bone in mammals

(2017) Mark E. Samuels et al.   PeerJ

The anatomy of Herpetotherium cf fugax Cope, 1873, a metatherian from the Oligocene of North America

(2017) Inés Horovitz et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

A Revised Subgeneric Classification of Short-Tailed Opossums (Didelphidae:Monodelphis)

(2016) Silvia E. Pavan et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Tips and nodes are complementary not competing approaches to the calibration of molecular clocks

(2016) Joseph E. O'Reilly et al.   Biology Letters

The Interrelationships of Placental Mammals and the Limits of Phylogenetic Inference

(2016) James E. Tarver et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Do Developmental Constraints and High Integration Limit the Evolution of the Marsupial Oral Apparatus?

(2016) Anjali Goswami et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Therian mammals experience an ecomorphological radiation during the Late Cretaceous and selective extinction at the K–Pg boundary

(2016) David M. Grossnickle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials

(2016) Gregory P. Wilson et al.   Nature Communications

A new family of bizarre durophagous carnivorous marsupials from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland

(2016) M. Archer et al.   Scientific Reports

A late Paleocene probable metatherian (?deltatheroidan) survivor of the Cretaceous mass extinction

(2016) Xijun Ni et al.   Scientific Reports

Review of Stagodontidae (Mammalia, Marsupialia) from the Judithian (Late Cretaceous) Belly River Group of southeastern Alberta, Canada

(2015) Craig S. Scott et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

A deltatheroidan mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Baynshiree Formation, eastern Mongolia

(2015) Guillermo W. Rougier et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Disentangling the Relationship of the Australian Marsupial Orders Using Retrotransposon and Evolutionary Network Analyses

(2015) Susanne Gallus et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2015) Christian De Muizon et al.   GEODIVERSITAS

A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals

(2015) Meng Chen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A new species of Gaylordia Paula Couto (Mammalia, Metatheria) from Itaboraí, Brazil

(2015) Edison Vicente de Oliveira et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Description of a new species of Sparassocynus (Marsupialia: Didelphoidea: Sparassocynidae) from the late Miocene of Jujuy (Argentina) and taxonomic review of Sparassocynus heterotopicus from the Pliocene of Bolivia

(2015) MARÍA ALEJANDRA ABELLO et al.   ZOOTAXA

A new Cretaceous Metatherian mammal from Henan, China

(2015) Shundong Bi et al.   PeerJ

Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals

(2014) M. dos Reis et al.   Biology Letters

Avoiding Competition: the Ecological History of Late Cenozoic Metatherian Carnivores in South America

(2014) Natalia Zimicz   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Differences in mandibular disparity between extant and extinct species of metatherian and placental carnivore clades

(2014) Sebastián Echarri et al.   LETHAIA

Molecular Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Habitat Preference Evolution of Marsupials

(2014) Kieren J. Mitchell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

First Clarkforkian Equivalent Land Mammal Age in the Latest Paleocene Basal Sparnacian Facies of Europe: Fauna, Flora, Paleoenvironment and (Bio)stratigraphy

(2014) Thierry Smith et al.   PLoS One

Virtual Reconstruction and Prey Size Preference in the Mid Cenozoic Thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia)

(2014) Marie R. G. Attard et al.   PLoS One

The origin and early evolution of metatherian mammals: the Cretaceous record

(2014) Thomas E. Williamson et al.   ZooKeys

Adaptations for digging in the forelimb muscle anatomy of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) and bilby (Macrotis lagotis)

(2013) Natalie M. Warburton et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution

(2013) C Verity Bennett et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

(2013) Sevket Sen   GEOBIOS

Heterochrony and post-natal growth in mammals - an examination of growth plates in limbs

(2013) M. Geiger et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Osteology and Systematics of the Enigmatic Australian Oligo-Miocene Metatherian Yalkaparidon (Yalkaparidontidae; Yalkaparidontia; ?Australidelphia; Marsupialia)

(2013) Robin M. D. Beck et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, U.S.A.: dental morphology and body-size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled ecospace filling

(2013) Gregory P. Wilson   PALEOBIOLOGY

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

The phylogeny and evolution of Cretaceous–Palaeogene metatherians: cladistic analysis and description of new early Palaeocene specimens from the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico

(2012) Thomas E. Williamson et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

3D Slicer as an image computing platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network

(2012) Andriy Fedorov et al.   MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An ‘ameridelphian’ marsupial from the early Eocene of Australia supports a complex model of Southern Hemisphere marsupial biogeography

(2012) Robin M. D. Beck   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Paleontological and developmental evidence resolve the homology and dual embryonic origin of a mammalian skull bone, the interparietal

(2012) D. Koyabu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Therian Femora from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

(2011) Stephen G.B. Chester et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Phylogenetic Analyses of Postcranial Skeletal Morphology in Didelphid Marsupials

(2011) David A. Flores   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of Didelphid Marsupials, an Extant Radiation of New World Metatherian Mammals

(2011) Robert S. Voss et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

PHYLOGENETIC VERSUS FUNCTIONAL SIGNALS IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN TERRESTRIAL VISION

(2011) Ryosuke Motani et al.   EVOLUTION

New material of the Late Cretaceous deltatheroidan mammal Sulestes from Uzbekistan and phylogenetic reassessment of the metatherian-eutherian dichotomy

(2011) Alexander O. Averianov et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Postcranial morphology, functional adaptations and palaeobiology of Callistoe vincei, a predaceous metatherian from the Eocene of Salta, north-western Argentina

(2011) CHRISTINE ARGOT et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Hammer-toothed 'marsupial skinks' from the Australian Cenozoic

(2011) D. A. Arena et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A reassessment of bunodont metatherians from the Paleogene of Itaboraí (Brazil): systematics and age of the Itaboraian SALMA

(2011) Édison V. Oliveira et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Mammalian Distal Humeri from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

(2010) Stephen G.B. Chester et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

An Analysis of Some Predatory Behaviour Patterns in Four Species of Carnivorous Marsupials (Dasyuridae), with Comparative Notes on the Eutherian Cat Felis catus

(2010) Sergio M. Pellis et al.   ETHOLOGY

The Great American Biotic Interchange: Dispersals, Tectonics, Climate, Sea Level and Holding Pens

(2010) Michael O. Woodburne   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Modeling the effects of cingula structure on strain patterns and potential fracture in tooth enamel

(2010) Philip S.L. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

An exceptionally well-preserved short-snouted bandicoot (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia

(2010) K. J. TRAVOUILLON et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Postcranial skeleton of the Miocene marsupial Palaeothentes (Paucituberculata, Palaeothentidae): paleobiology and phylogeny

(2010) MARÍA ALEJANDRA ABELLO et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Tracking Marsupial Evolution Using Archaic Genomic Retroposon Insertions

(2010) Maria A. Nilsson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Chulpasia and Thylacotinga, late Paleocene-earliest Eocene trans-Antarctic Gondwanan bunodont marsupials: New data from Australia

(2009) Bernard Sigé et al.   GEOBIOS

Quantitative Morphological Proxies for Fossoriality in Small Mammals

(2009) Samantha S. B. Hopkins et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Contribution to the knowledge of the Sparassocynidae (Mammalia, Metatheria, Didelphoidea), with comments on the age of the Aisol Formation (Neogene), Mendoza Province, Argentina

(2009) Analía M. Forasiepi et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums

(2009) Inés Horovitz et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia) hindlimb skeleton

(2008) Justine A. Salton et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Australia's Oldest Marsupial Fossils and their Biogeographical Implications

(2008) Robin M. D. Beck et al.   PLoS One

Functional anatomy of the limbs of erethizontidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha): Indicators of locomotor behavior in Miocene porcupines

(2007) Adriana M. Candela et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY