eLife, 2021 Evolutionary changes in the anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system underlie the origins and diversification of pregnancy in Eutherian (‘placental’) mammals.
Katelyn Mika +5 more
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New material of the trechnotherian mammal Lactodens from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota: Comparison with Origolestes and implications for mammal evolution [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 A new specimen of Lactodens sheni, the only known spalacolestine from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, is reported from the Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning, China.
FANGYUAN MAO, CUNYU LIU, JIN MENG
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eLife, 2021 The speciose mammalian order Eulipotyphla (moles, shrews, hedgehogs, solenodons) combines an unusual diversity of semi-aquatic, semi-fossorial, and fossorial forms that arose from terrestrial forbearers. However, our understanding of the ecomorphological
Kai He +8 more
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Carnassiform notches improve the functional efficiency of bat molar shearing crests [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 We surveyed molar surface morphology of bats of 281 extant and extinct species in 5 archaic and 19 extant families using scanning microscopy. We note the occurrence of structural features on talonid crests, the cristid obliqua, postcristid, and ...
NICHOLAS J. CZAPLEWSKI, CHARLES G. BAKER
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Animals, 2022 “The Dahomey Gap” is a human-derived mostly savannah region that separates the Guineo-Congolian rainforest block into two major units: the Upper Guinean and the Lower Guinean Forest blocks.
Gabriel Hoinsoudé Segniagbeto +7 more
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Second specimen of Corriebaatar marywaltersae from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia confirms its multituberculate affinities [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 A second specimen of the Australian cimolodontan multituberculate Corriebaatar marywaltersae from the same locality (Flat Rocks) as the holotype and previously only known specimen, reveals far more anatomical information about the species.
THOMAS H. RICH +7 more
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A new early Pliocene murine rodent from the Iberian Peninsula and its biostratigraphic implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 In the last years, a murine identified as Paraethomys aff. abaigari has been repeatedly recognized in several early Pliocene localities of the Iberian Peninsula.
Pedro Piñero, Diego H. Verzi
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New records of marsupials from the Miocene of Western Amazonia, Acre, Brazil [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 The Amazonian region covers a significant part of the South American continent and harbors outstanding biodiversity. However, much of its history is still unknown.
Narla S. Stutz +12 more
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Formation of fauna of Mammals of the Samara region in Pleistocene
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2015 Mammalia Fauna Evolution of Samara Region was begun at the Middle Pliocene. Most of founded fossil Mammalia are steppen forms (67%). Forest forms (25%) appeared later.
E. Yu. Rigina, A. V. Vinogradov
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A new diminutive fossil ziphiid from the deep-sea floor off northern Chile and some remarks on the body size evolution and palaeobiogeography of the beaked whales [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 The evolutionary history of the beaked whales (Ziphiidae), odontocetes nowadays adapted to deep diving, is well known thanks to a significant fossil record mainly from the deep ocean floors.
Giovanni Bianucci +3 more
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