Following our traditional concept of Mammalia, and thus including a number of forms known
only by fossils of the Mesozoic, the earliest mammals are from the Late Triassic, a bit over …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

The first fossil chordates are found in deposits from the Cambrian period (545–490 million
years ago), but their earliest record is exceptionally sporadic and is often controversial …

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 …

The skeleton of a eutherian (placental) mammal has been discovered from the Lower
Cretaceous Yixian Formation of northeastern China. We estimate its age to be about 125 …

The Cretaceous terrestrial strata of the Neuquén Basin (northern Patagonia, Argentina) are
described together with their tetrapod records. Six local tetrapod assemblages are identified …

We propose a phylogeny of all major groups of Mesozoic mammals based on phylogenetic
analyses of 46 taxa and 275 osteological and dental characters, using parsimony methods …

Mesozoic mammals are commonly portrayed as shrew-or rat-sized animals that were mainly
insectivorous, probably nocturnal and lived in the shadow of dinosaurs,,,,. The largest known …

Jaw morphology is closely linked to both diet and biomechanical performance, and jaws are
one of the most common Mesozoic mammal fossil elements. Knowledge of the dietary and …

Maelestes gobiensis, is the second new eutherian mammal to be named from the rich
Mongolian Late Cretaceous locality of Ukhaa Tolgod, Ukhaatherium nessovi, being the first …