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 …

[HTML][HTML] Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials

RMD Beck, RS Voss, SA Jansa - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2022 - BioOne
The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

The biology and palaeontology of the Peramelemorphia: a review of current knowledge and future research directions

NM Warburton, KJ Travouillon - Australian Journal of Zoology, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) represent the dominant omnivorous
clade of Australasian marsupials and, as ground-dwelling, small-to medium-sized mammals …

[PDF][PDF] Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia): reassessment of two species and …

KJ Travouillon, MJ Phillips - Zootaxa, 2018 - academia.edu
The phylogenetic relationships of bandicoots and bilbies have been somewhat problematic,
with conflicting results between morphological work and molecular data. This conflict makes …

Mammalian lineages and the biostratigraphy and biochronology of Cenozoic faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia

DA Arena, KJ Travouillon, RMD Beck, KH Black… - Lethaia, 2016 - idunn.no
Lineage zones within nine contemporaneous mammalian lineages represented in the
Cenozoic fossil vertebrate record from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northern …

A probable koala from the Oligocene of central Australia provides insights into early diprotodontian evolution

AI Crichton, RMD Beck, AMC Couzens, TH Worthy… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Diprotodontians are the morphologically and ecologically most diverse order of marsupials.
However, an approximately 30-million-year gap in the Australian terrestrial vertebrate fossil …

The Osteology and Systematics of the Enigmatic Australian Oligo-Miocene Metatherian Yalkaparidon (Yalkaparidontidae; Yalkaparidontia; ?Australidelphia; …

RMD Beck, KJ Travouillon, KP Aplin… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2014 - Springer
We provide the first detailed description of the osteology of the enigmatic Oligo-Miocene
Australian metatherian Yalkaparidon. This taxon exhibits a number of unusual craniodental …

Sexually dimorphic bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, first cranial ontogeny for fossil bandicoots and new species …

KJ Travouillon, M Archer, SJ Hand… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2015 - Springer
Peramelemorphians (bandicoots and bilbies) are unique among mammals in having the
shortest gestation period. Very little is known about their evolutionary history primarily …

Taxonomy and diversity of living Australasian marsupials

AM Baker, MDB Eldridge, DO Fisher… - … and ecological approach, 2023 - Springer
The living Australasian marsupials are a highly diverse group, comprising four orders: the
Dasyuromorphia, Notoryctemorphia, Peramelemorphia, and Diprotodontia. Collectively …

A new family of large omnivorous bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Late Eocene of the Fayum Depression, Egypt, with comments on use of the name “ …

NB Simmons, ER Seiffert, GF Gunnell - American Museum Novitates, 2016 - BioOne
ABSTRACT A new fossil from the Late Eocene BQ-2 locality in the Birket Qarun Formation in
the Fayum Depression of northern Egypt (dated to~ 37 mybp) does not fit within the …