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

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

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

Replaying evolutionary transitions from the dental fossil record

(2014) Enni Harjunmaa et al.   NATURE

Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals

(2014) Shundong Bi et al.   NATURE

Mesozoic mammaliaform diversity: The effect of sampling corrections on reconstructions of evolutionary dynamics

(2014) Elis Newham et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

New evidence suggests pyroclastic flows are responsible for the remarkable preservation of the Jehol biota

(2014) Baoyu Jiang et al.   Nature Communications

Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity

(2013) Michael O. Woodburne et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

A new arboreal haramiyid shows the diversity of crown mammals in the Jurassic period

(2013) Xiaoting Zheng et al.   NATURE

A Jurassic mammaliaform and the earliest mammalian evolutionary adaptations

(2013) Chang-Fu Zhou et al.   NATURE

Jurassic fossils and mammalian antiquity

(2013) Richard L. Cifelli et al.   NATURE

A new phylogeny for basal Trechnotheria and Cladotheria and affinities of South American endemic Late Cretaceous mammals

(2013) Alexander O. Averianov et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

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

Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation

(2013) D. M. Grossnickle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs

(2012) Gregory P. Wilson et al.   NATURE

Timing of the earliest known feathered dinosaurs and transitional pterosaurs older than the Jehol Biota

(2012) Yong-Qing Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Extinction patterns, δ18 O trends, and magnetostratigraphy from a southern high-latitude Cretaceous–Paleogene section: Links with Deccan volcanism

(2012) Thomas S. Tobin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation

(2012) Terry A. Gates et al.   PLoS One

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

Reappraisal of the Tribosphenidan Mammals from the Trinity Group (Aptian—Albian) of Texas and Oklahoma

(2011) Brian M. Davis et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Therian Femora from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

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

Protungulatum, Confirmed Cretaceous Occurrence of an Otherwise Paleocene Eutherian (Placental?) Mammal

(2011) J. David Archibald et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Evolution of the Tribosphenic Molar Pattern in Early Mammals, with Comments on the “Dual-Origin” Hypothesis

(2011) Brian M. Davis   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN 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 novel interpretation of the tribosphenidan mammalSlaughteria eruptensfrom the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group, and implications for dental formula in early mammals

(2011) Brian M. Davis   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution

(2011) T. S. Feild et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

Mammalian Distal Humeri from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

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

Evolution and development of the mammalian dentition: Insights from the marsupial Monodelphis domestica

(2010) Jacqueline E. Moustakas et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Mammals from the Middle Jurassic Balabansai Formation of the Fergana Depression, Kyrgyzstan

(2010) Thomas Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

New latest Cretaceous mammals from northeastern Colorado with biochronologic and biogeographic implications

(2010) Gregory P. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Mammals from the St. Mary River Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Montana

(2010) John P. Hunter et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

New specimen reveals deltatheroidan affinities of the North American Late Cretaceous MammalNanocuris

(2010) Gregory P. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Biogeography of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrates from the late Cretaceous (Campanian) Western Interior of North America

(2010) T.A. Gates et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism

(2010) Scott D. Sampson et al.   PLoS One

Low beta diversity of Maastrichtian dinosaurs of North America

(2010) M. J. Vavrek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mammals from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation in the Southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China

(2010) Thomas Martin et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

The Eutherian Mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of cretaceous eutheria

(2009) John R. Wible et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Integrated climate model-oxygen isotope evidence for a North American monsoon during the Late Cretaceous

(2009) Henry C. Fricke et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Abdominal muscle function in ventilation and locomotion in new world opossums and basal eutherians: Breathing and running with and without epipubic bones

(2009) Stephen M. Reilly et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

BIOCHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE EARLIEST SOUTH AMERICAN PALEOGENE MAMMALIAN FAUNAS

(2009) JAVIER N. GELFO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums

(2009) Inés Horovitz et al.   PLoS One

Molecules, morphology, and ecology indicate a recent, amphibious ancestry for echidnas

(2009) M. J. Phillips et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The oldest modern therian mammal from Europe and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeography

(2009) R. Vullo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest South American paucituberculatans and their significance in the understanding of ‘pseudodiprotodont’ marsupial radiations

(2009) FRANCISCO J. GOIN et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

A Bizarre New Family of Marsupialia (Incertae sedis) from the Early Pliocene of Northeastern Australia: Implications for the Phylogeny of Bunodont Marsupials

(2008) Robin M. D. Beck et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Metatherian mammals from the Naashoibito Member, Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and their biochronologic and paleobiogeographic significance

(2008) Thomas E. Williamson et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2008) G. T Lloyd et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES