Evolutionary trends among mammals over the past 66 Myr have been profoundly influenced
by changing climates, in turn the result of tectonic events. The global tropical forest type of …

The Scotia arc is the eastward-closing loop of mountains and locally emergent submarine
ridges extending from the southernmost Andes through the active South Sandwich volcanic …

Following our traditional concept of Mammalia, and thus including a number of forms known
only by fossils of the Mesozoic, the earliest mammals are from the Late Triassic, a bit over …

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor
Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

The first fossil chordates are found in deposits from the Cambrian period (545–490 million
years ago), but their earliest record is exceptionally sporadic and is often controversial …

We propose a phylogeny of all major groups of Mesozoic mammals based on phylogenetic
analyses of 46 taxa and 275 osteological and dental characters, using parsimony methods …

An appraisal of Paleogene floral and land mammal faunal dynamics in South America
suggests that both biotic elements responded at rate and extent generally comparable to …

Marsupials, placentals and their close therian relatives possess complex (tribosphenic)
molars that are capable of versatile occlusal functions. This functional complex is widely …

We review past DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and present a reanalysis of the
data, utilising results from our and additional studies to formulate and rationalise a new …