High-level similarity of dentitions in carnivorans and rodents
- A. Evans, G. Wilson, M. Fortelius, J. Jernvall
- Biology, Environmental ScienceNature
- 4 January 2007
In this GIS analysis of 441 teeth from 81 species of carnivorans and rodents, it is shown that the surface complexity of tooth crowns directly reflects the foods they consume and the link between diet and phenotype will be useful for inferring the ecology of extinct species and illustrates the potential of fast-throughput, high-level analysis of the phenotype.
Adaptive radiation of multituberculate mammals before the extinction of dinosaurs
- G. Wilson, A. Evans, Ian J. Corfe, P. Smits, M. Fortelius, J. Jernvall
- Environmental Science, GeographyNature
- 14 March 2012
It is shown that in arguably the most evolutionarily successful clade of Mesozoic mammals, the Multituberculata, an adaptive radiation began at least 20 million years before the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and continued across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary.
Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, U.S.A.: dental morphology and body-size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled ecospace filling
- G. Wilson
- Environmental Science, GeographyPaleobiology
- 9 May 2013
The decline in dental-shape disparity and body-size disparity across the K/Pg boundary shows a pattern of constructive extinction selectivity against larger-bodied dietary specialists, particularly strict carnivores and taxa with plant-based diets, that suggests the kill mechanism was related to depressed primary productivity rather than a globally instantaneous event.
Calibration of chron C29r: New high-precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana
- C. Sprain, P. Renne, W. Clemens, G. Wilson
- Geology, Environmental Science
- 1 September 2018
The mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary marks one of the most important biotic turnover events in Earth history. Yet, despite decades of study, the causes of the Cretaceous-Paleogene…
Mammalian extinction, survival, and recovery dynamics across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana, USA
- G. Wilson
- Environmental Science, Geology
- 2014
Together, the decoupled patterns of richness and relative abundances reveal the complexity of faunal dynamics during this seminal episode in mammalian history.
High-resolution chronostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana
- C. Sprain, P. Renne, G. Wilson, W. Clemens
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 March 2015
Detailed understanding of ecosystem decline and recovery attending the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) mass extinctions is hindered by limited constraints on the pace and tempo of environmental…
The origin and early evolution of metatherian mammals: the Cretaceous record
- T. Williamson, S. Brusatte, G. Wilson
- Geography, Environmental ScienceZooKeys
- 17 December 2014
Metatherian diversification patterns suggest that they were not strongly affected by a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, but they clearly underwent a severe extinction across the K-Pg boundary.
Mammalian Faunal Dynamics During the Last 1.8 Million Years of the Cretaceous in Garfield County, Montana
- G. Wilson
- Environmental Science, GeographyJournal of mammalian evolution
- 1 June 2005
This study provides an analysis of biotic change in successive mammalian communities during the last 1.8 million years of the Cretaceous (67.3–65.58 Ma) from the Hell Creek Formation in Garfield…
Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
- T. Lyson, I. Miller, S. G. Chester
- Environmental Science, GeographyScience
- 24 October 2019
A time-calibrated stratigraphic section in Colorado is reported that contains unusually complete fossils of mammals, reptiles, and plants and elucidates the drivers and tempo of biotic recovery during the poorly known first million years after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction.
A multivariate approach to infer locomotor modes in Mesozoic mammals
By the Late Jurassic mammals had diversified into all but the saltatorial and active flight locomotor modes, and that this diversification was greatest in the Eutriconodonta andMultituberculata, although sampling of postcranial skeletons remains uneven across taxa and through time.
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