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 …

Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure

A Licht, G Métais, P Coster, D İbilioğlu, F Ocakoğlu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Grande Coupure corresponds to a major episode of faunal turnover in western
Europe around the Eocene-Oligocene boundary that is generally attributed to the influx of …

[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 …

Skeleton of a Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity

DW Krause, S Hoffmann, Y Hu, JR Wible, GW Rougier… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Dental anatomy, phylogenetic relationships and paleoecology of Orhaniyeia nauta (Metatheria, Anatoliadelphyidae), a Gondwanan component of the insular Eocene …

KC Beard, PMC Coster, F Ocakoğlu, A Licht… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Two new specimens of the anatoliadelphyid metatherian Orhaniyeia nauta are described
from the middle Eocene Uzunçarşıdere Formation in the Orhaniye Basin, north-central …

Crocodylian assemblage from the middle Eocene Ikovo locality (Lugansk Province, Ukraine), with a discussion of the fossil record and geographic origins of …

IT Kuzmin, EA Zvonok - Geobios, 2021 - Elsevier
The known fossil record of crocodyliforms in Europe during the Paleogene is significantly
biased, in that the fauna of Western Europe is far better sampled and understood compared …

Small artiodactyls with tapir-like teeth from the middle Eocene of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China

B Bai, YQ Wang, JM Theodor, J Meng - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Artiodactyls diversified during the Eocene and Oligocene in North America and Europe after
their first Holarctic appearance at the beginning of the Eocene. However, the relationships …

Sedimentary provenance from the evolving forearc‐to‐foreland Central Sakarya Basin, western Anatolia reveals multi‐phase intercontinental collision

MA Mueller, A Licht, C Campbell… - Geochemistry …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Collision between the Pontides and Anatolide‐Tauride Block along the İzmir‐Ankara‐
Erzincan suture in Anatolia has been variously estimated from the Late Cretaceous to …

Paleogene metatherians from the Itaboraí Basin: Diversity and affinities

LM Carneiro, ÉV Oliveira - American and Australasian Marsupials: An …, 2023 - Springer
Metatherians represented the most diverse group of Paleogene mammals of South America.
The early Eocene metatherian fauna of Itaboraí, Brazil, was one of the most prominent. This …

Collision chronology along the İzmir‐Ankara‐Erzincan suture zone: Insights from the Sarıcakaya Basin, western Anatolia

MA Mueller, A Licht, C Campbell, F Ocakoğlu… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Debate persists concerning the timing and geodynamics of intercontinental collision, style of
syncollisional deformation, and development of topography and fold‐and‐thrust belts along …