Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

TJD Halliday, P Upchurch, A Goswami - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The 'Age of Mammals' began in the Paleocene epoch, the 10 million year
interval immediately following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. The apparently …

Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

TR Lyson, IM Miller, AD Bercovici, K Weissenburger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We report a time-calibrated stratigraphic section in Colorado that contains unusually
complete fossils of mammals, reptiles, and plants and elucidates the drivers and tempo of …

Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review

JD Gardner, DG DeMar - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Mesozoic and Palaeocene record of lissamphibians (ie anurans, caudates,
gymnophionans and albanerpetontids) in North America is reviewed on the basis of over …

Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, USA: dental morphology and body-size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled …

GP Wilson - Paleobiology, 2013 - cambridge.org
The Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/Pg) mass extinction has long been viewed as a pivotal event in
mammalian evolutionary history, in which the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs allowed …

Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA

SM Smith, CJ Sprain, WA Clemens… - GSA …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Changes in mammalian faunal composition and structure following the Cretaceous–
Paleogene mass extinction are central to understanding not only how terrestrial …

Skull of a new periptychid mammal from the lower Paleocene Denver Formation of Colorado (Corral Bluffs, El Paso County)

LN Weaver, JW Crowell, SGB Chester… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2024 - Springer
The Periptychidae, an extinct group of archaic ungulates ('condylarths'), were the most
speciose eutherian mammals in the earliest Paleocene of North America, epitomizing …

[HTML][HTML] Constructing a time scale of biotic recovery across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, Corral Bluffs, Denver Basin, Colorado, USA

AJ Fuentes, WC Clyde… - Rocky Mountain …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary interval represents one of the
most significant mass extinctions and ensuing biotic recoveries in Earth history. Earliest …

The oldest Cenozoic mammal fauna of Europe: implication of the Hainin reference fauna for mammalian evolution and dispersals during the Paleocene

E De Bast, T Smith - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The mammal fauna of Hainin is particularly interesting as the oldest in the Cenozoic of
Europe, and the earliest reference level (MP1–5) of the mammalian biochronological scale …

A new earliest Paleocene (Puercan) mammalian fauna from Colorado's Denver Basin, USA

EL Dahlberg, JJ Eberle… - Rocky Mountain …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Few areas preserve the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary and earliest Paleocene
(Puercan) mammalian faunas better than Colorado's Denver Basin. Research conducted …

New earliest Paleocene (Puercan) periptychid 'condylarths' from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, USA

MR Atteberry, JJ Eberle - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
An earliest Paleocene (Puercan) locality in the China Butte Member of the Fort Union
Formation in the Great Divide Basin (GDB) of Wyoming contains a diverse mammalian …