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The Multituberculates as Living Animals: New Insights into the Ecomorphology, Behavior, and Life History of One of the Most Successful Mammalian Lineages
Mammals from the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic exploited a diversity of ecological niches, approaching the complexity and specialization of extant therian mammals. Among the most evolutionarily diverse and numerically abundant of these early mammals were the Multituberculata, an extinct group of …
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The evolutionary transition from reptiles to mammals: analyses of body size reduction and separation of middle ear elements from the jaw
… during synapsid evolution until the origin of mammals, and this decrease has often been linked to the evolution of mammal-like characteristics. Despite the importance of these patterns to our understanding of mammalian evolution, the particular evolutionary mechanisms that underlie them are …