Zhe‐Xi Luo

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Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure
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The Mesozoic Mammals in Space and Time and the Interrelationships of Mesozoics Mammals are studied to understand the distribution and relationships of these animals.
The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals
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A phylogenetic tree shows that crown clade Placentalia and placental orders originated after the K-Pg boundary, but phenomic signals overturn molecular signals to show Sundatheria (Dermoptera + Scandentia) as the sister taxon of Primates, a close link between Proboscidea and Sirenia (sea cows), and the monophyly of echolocating Chiroptera (bats).
The earliest known eutherian mammal
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The skeleton of a eutherian (placental) mammal found in northeastern China has limb and foot features that are known only from scansorial and arboreal extant mammals, in contrast to the terrestrial or cursorial features of other Cretaceous eutherians.
An Early Cretaceous Tribosphenic Mammal and Metatherian Evolution
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New data from this fossil support the view that Asia was likely the center for the diversification of the earliest metatherians and eutherians during the Early Cretaceous.
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals
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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 is proposed, suggesting that the “obtuse−angle symmetrodonts” are paraphyletic, and that they lack reliable and unambiguous synapomorphies.
A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals
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This mammal has scansorial forelimb features, and provides the ancestral condition for dental and other anatomical features of eutherians, reducing and resolving a discrepancy between the previous fossil record and the molecular estimate for the placental–marsupial divergence.
Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals
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Phylogenetic and morphometric analyses including these newly discovered taxa suggest a different interpretation: that mammals with tribosphenic molars are not monophyletic.
Fossil Evidence on Origin of the Mammalian Brain
Evidence from two early fossils suggests that brain enlargement and specialization proceeded in three pulses. Many hypotheses have been postulated regarding the early evolution of the mammalian…
A New Mammaliaform from the Early Jurassic and Evolution of Mammalian Characteristics
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A fossil from the Early Jurassic represents a new lineage of mammaliaforms, the extinct groups more closely related to the living mammals than to nonmammaliaform cynodonts, and shows that several key mammalian evolutionary innovations in the ear region, the temporomandibular joint, and the brain vault evolved incrementally through mammaliaform evolution and long before the differentiation of the living mammal groups.
The petrosal and inner ear of Herpetocetus sp. (Mammalia; Cetacea) and their implications for the phylogeny and hearing of archaic mysticetes
r-This paper describes the petrosal (periotic) and the inner ear of Herpetocetus sp., an archaic mysticete whale (Mysticeti, Mammalia) from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of North Carolina, USA.…
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