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 …

Recent palaeontological data and novel physiological hypotheses now allow a timescaled
reconstruction of the evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals. A three‐phase iterative …

Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

Placental mammals comprise three principal clades: Afrotheria (eg, elephants and tenrecs),
Xenarthra (eg, armadillos and sloths), and Boreoeutheria (all other placental mammals), the …

Morphological data provide the only means of classifying the majority of life's history, but the
choice between competing phylogenetic methods for the analysis of morphology is unclear …

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 …

Prozostrodon brasiliensis and Therioherpeton cargnini are non‐mammaliaform cynodonts
that lived~ 233 million years ago (late Carnian, Late Triassic) in western Gondwana. They …

Stem mammaliaforms are forerunners to modern mammals, and they achieved considerable
ecomorphological diversity in their own right. Recent discoveries suggest that …

Stem mammaliaforms are Mesozoic forerunners to mammals, and they offer critical evidence
for the anatomical evolution and ecological diversification during the earliest mammalian …

The fossil record of mammaliaforms (mammals and their closest relatives) of the Mesozoic
era from the southern supercontinent Gondwana is far less extensive than that from its …