The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post—K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 phenomic characters de novo for 86 fossil and living species. Combining these data with molecular sequences, we obta...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2013-02, Vol.339 (6120), p.662-667
Main Authors:	O'Leary, Maureen A., Bloch, Jonathan I., Flynn, John J., Gaudin, Timothy J., Giallombardo, Andres, Giannini, Norberto P., Goldberg, Suzann L., Kraatz, Brian P., Luo, Zhe-Xi, Meng, Jin, Ni, Xijun, Novacek, Michael J., Perini, Fernando A., Randall, Zachary S., Rougier, Guillermo W., Sargis, Eric J., Silcox, Mary T., Simmons, Nancy B., Spaulding, Michelle, Velazco, Paúl M., Weksler, Marcelo, Wible, John R., Cirranello, Andrea L.
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Language:	English
Subjects:	ancestry Animals Base Sequence Biological Evolution Biological taxonomies Boundaries Clocks Cretaceous Dentition Ecosystem Evolution Extinct species Extinction, Biological Female Fossils Genotype & phenotype Mammals Mammals - anatomy & histology Mammals - classification Mammals - genetics Morphology Paleodontology Paleogene Paleontology phenotype Phylogeny Phylogeography Placenta Pregnancy Primates RESEARCH ARTICLE Sequence Alignment Signals Taxa Teeth Time Time measurements Xenarthra - anatomy & histology Xenarthra - classification Xenarthra - genetics
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