Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality

Biotic and environmental dynamics through the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover

(2016) Jonathan P. Tennant et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The timing of India-Asia collision onset – Facts, theories, controversies

(2016) Xiumian Hu et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

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

Severe extinction and rapid recovery of mammals across the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary, and the effects of rarity on patterns of extinction and recovery

(2016) N. R. Longrich et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY 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

Eutherians experienced elevated evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction

(2016) Thomas John Dixon Halliday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eutherian morphological disparity across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

(2015) Thomas John Dixon Halliday et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

(2015) Thomas J. D. Halliday et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Palaeogene climate evolution in the Paris Basin from oxygen stable isotope (δ18O) compositions of marine molluscs

(2015) Damien Huyghe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Eocene primates of South America and the African origins of New World monkeys

(2015) Mariano Bond et al.   NATURE

Quasi-static Eocene–Oligocene climate in Patagonia promotes slow faunal evolution and mid-Cenozoic global cooling

(2015) Matthew J. Kohn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Current extinction rates of reptiles and amphibians

(2015) John Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

(2015) Christine D. Bacon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An early start for the Panama land bridge

(2015) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

(2015) C. Montes et al.   SCIENCE

Regional provenance from southwestern Colombia fore-arc and intra-arc basins: implications for Middle to Late Miocene orogeny in the Northern Andes

(2015) Sebastián Echeverri et al.   TERRA NOVA

Cenozoic climatic shifts in southern Australia

(2015) Brian McGowran et al.   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

The extinction of the dinosaurs

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

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

Bearing up well? Understanding the past, present and future of Australia's koalas

(2014) Karen H. Black et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2014) Natalia Zimicz   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

First cranial remains of a gondwanatherian mammal reveal remarkable mosaicism

(2014) David W. Krause et al.   NATURE

Two massive, rapid releases of carbon during the onset of the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum

(2014) Gabriel J. Bowen et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2014) Elis Newham et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

(2014) Thomas E. Williamson et al.   ZooKeys

Splendid and Seldom Isolated: The Paleobiogeography of Patagonia

(2013) Peter Wilf et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Analysis of dental homologies and phylogeny of Paucituberculata (Mammalia: Marsupialia)

(2013) Maria Alejandra Abello   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2013) C Verity Bennett et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A revision of the putative Late Cretaceous triconodonts from South America

(2013) L.C. Gaetano et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

THE EARLY DIVERSIFICATION HISTORY OF DIDELPHID MARSUPIALS: A WINDOW INTO SOUTH AMERICA'S “SPLENDID ISOLATION”

(2013) Sharon A. Jansa et al.   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

Tyrant Dinosaur Evolution Tracks the Rise and Fall of Late Cretaceous Oceans

(2013) Mark A. Loewen et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

(2013) Graham J. Slater   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Marine diversity in the geological record and its relationship to surviving bedrock area, lithofacies diversity, and original marine shelf area

(2012) Andrew B. Smith et al.   GEOLOGY

Why are There Fewer Marsupials than Placentals? On the Relevance of Geography and Physiology to Evolutionary Patterns of Mammalian Diversity and Disparity

(2012) Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

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

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

(2012) Robin M. D. Beck   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Reconstructing the diversity of early terrestrial herbivorous tetrapods

(2012) Marianne R. Pearson et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A survey of palaeontological sampling biases in fishes based on the Phanerozoic record of Great Britain

(2012) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

Fossil pollen records reveal a late rise of open-habitat ecosystems in Patagonia

(2012) Luis Palazzesi et al.   Nature Communications

A dating success story: genomes and fossils converge on placental mammal origins

(2012) Anjali Goswami   EvoDevo

The Evolution of the Cenozoic Terrestrial Mammalian Predator Guild in South America: Competition or Replacement?

(2011) Francisco J. Prevosti et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Limb specialization in living marsupial and eutherian mammals: constraints on mammalian limb evolution

(2011) E. McKenna Kelly et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

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

Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography

(2011) P.-O. Antoine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

A New Global Palaeobiogeographical Model for the Late Mesozoic and Early Tertiary

(2011) Martín D. Ezcurra et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time

(2010) Philip D. Mannion et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land

(2010) S. Sahney et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2010) Michael O. Woodburne   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

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

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

The completeness of the continental fossil record and its impact on patterns of diversification

(2010) Attila Kalmar et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm

(2010) R. J. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Was the Oligo-Miocene Australian metatherian Yalkaparidon a ‘mammalian woodpecker’?

(2009) ROBIN M. D. BECK   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene sites: Implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia

(2009) K.J. Travouillon et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Revisiting Raup: exploring the influence of outcrop area on diversity in light of modern sample-standardization techniques

(2009) Patrick D. Wall et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement

(2009) Richard J. Butler et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

(2009) R. B. J. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

(2009) M. J. Benton   SCIENCE

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

An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR

(2008) Brian Keith McNab   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Middle Eocene–late Oligocene climate variability: Calcareous nannofossil response at Kerguelen Plateau, Site 748

(2008) G. Villa et al.   MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

Global Taxonomic Diversity of Anomodonts (Tetrapoda, Therapsida) and the Terrestrial Rock Record Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary

(2008) Jörg Fröbisch   PLoS One

Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals

(2008) L. H. Liow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

(2008) J. Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates

(2008) J. Alroy et al.   SCIENCE