Historical biogeography of the I sthmus of P anama

EG Leigh, A O'Dea, GJ Vermeij - Biological Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
About 3 million years ago (Ma), the I sthmus of P anama joined the A mericas, forming a land
bridge over which inhabitants of each A merica invaded the other—the G reat A merican B …

Untangling the multiple ecological radiations of early mammals

DM Grossnickle, SM Smith, GP Wilson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019 - cell.com
The ecological diversification of early mammals is one of the most globally transformative
events in Earth's history and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) and end …

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

JR Jambeck, R Geyer, C Wilcox, TR Siegler… - science, 2015 - science.org
Plastic debris in the marine environment is widely documented, but the quantity of plastic
entering the ocean from waste generated on land is unknown. By linking worldwide data on …

[HTML][HTML] Paleontological discoveries in the Chorrillo Formation (upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian, Upper Cretaceous), Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia …

F Novas, F Agnolin, S Rozadilla… - Revista del Museo …, 2019 - SciELO Argentina
The first fossil remains of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants and palynomorphs of the
Chorrillo Formation (Austral Basin), about 30km to the SW of the town of El Calafate …

Evidence for a mid-Jurassic adaptive radiation in mammals

RA Close, M Friedman, GT Lloyd, RBJ Benson - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
A series of spectacular discoveries have transformed our understanding of Mesozoic
mammals in recent years. These finds reveal hitherto-unsuspected ecomorphological …

Splendid and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia

P Wilf, NR Cúneo, IH Escapa, D Pol… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

First cranial remains of a gondwanatherian mammal reveal remarkable mosaicism

DW Krause, S Hoffmann, JR Wible, EC Kirk, JA Schultz… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Previously known only from isolated teeth and lower jaw fragments recovered from the
Cretaceous and Palaeogene of the Southern Hemisphere, the Gondwanatheria constitute …

An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological diversification

QJ Meng, Q Ji, YG Zhang, D Liu, DM Grossnickle… - Science, 2015 - science.org
A new docodontan mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic of China has skeletal features
for climbing and dental characters indicative of an omnivorous diet that included plant sap …

An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)

MDB Eldridge, RMD Beck, DA Croft… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …

Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea

DJ Button, GT Lloyd, MD Ezcurra, RJ Butler - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinctions have profoundly impacted the evolution of life through not only reducing
taxonomic diversity but also resha** ecosystems and biogeographic patterns. In …