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Archaic Mammals: References


Abbreviated Dendrogram
EUTHERIA
|?--+--Palaeoryctidae
|    `?--+--Pantolesta
|         `--Ptolemaiidae
|?--+--Pantodonta
|    `--Tillodontia
|?--Taeniodonta
|?--Dinocerata
|?==Creodonts
|--BOREOEUTHERIA
|--AFROTHERIA 
`--XENARTHRA
Contents

Overview
"Cimolesta"
Pantodonta
Tillodontia
Taeniodonta
Dinocerata
Creodonts
References


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Pantodonta - Note

Benton, M.J. 2005. Vertebrate palaeontology. 3rd ed. Blackwell Publishing
Taeniodonta

Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co., 698 pp.
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Cote S, Werdelin L, Seiffert ER, Barry JC (March 2007). "Additional material of the enigmatic Early Miocene mammal Kelba and its relationship to the order Ptolemaiida". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 104 (13): 5510–5. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700441104. PMC 1838468. PMID 17372202.
Ptolemaiidae

Colbert, E.H., 1969 Evolution of the Vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd ed.

Cope, E. D. 1880. On the genera of the Creodonta. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 19 (107): 76-82.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Cope, E. D. 1883. On the mutual relations of the bunotherian Mammalia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 35: 77-83.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Cope, E. D. 1884. The Creodonta. American Naturalist 18 (3): 255-267.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Gheerbrant, E., M. Iarochene, M. Amaghzaz & B. Bouya. 2006. Early African hyaenodontid mammals and their bearing on the origin of the Creodonta. Geological Magazine 143 (4): 475-489.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Gunnell, G. F. 1998. Creodonta. In Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America vol. 1. Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals (C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott & L. L. Jacobs, eds) pp. 91-109. Cambridge University Press.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

T.S. Kemp (2005) The origin and evolution of mammals p.240, via Wikipedia
Tillodontia

Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., R.L. Cifelli, and Z.-X. Luo. 2004. Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: origins, evolution, and structure. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cimolesta

Lucas, S. G. 1998. Pantodonta. In: Janis, C. M., K. M. Scott & L. L. Jacobs (eds) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America vol. 1. Terrestrial carnivores, ungulates, and ungulatelike mammals pp. 274-283. Cambridge University Press.
Pantodonta

McKenna, M.C., and S.K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press.
Cimolesta

Polly, P. D. 1996. The skeleton of Gazinocyon vulpeculus gen. et comb. nov. and the cladistic relationships of Hyaenodontidae (Eutheria, Mammalia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (2): 303-319.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Riff, D. & Kellner, A. W. A. 2001. On the dentition of Baurusuchus pachecoi Price (Crocodyliformes, Metasuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional, 59, 1–15
Pantodonta - Note

Rose, K.D. 2006 The beginning of the age of mammals, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Cimolesta, Pantolestidae

Schoch R.M. 1981 Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the early Tertiary Taeniodonta (Mammalia: Eutheria). Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 92-I p. 933-941.
Taeniodonta

Schoch, Robert Milton. 1986. Systematics, Functional Morphology and Macroevolution of the Extinct Mammalian Order Taeniodonta. Bulletin 42. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
Taeniodonta

Simons EL, Bown TM (April 1995). "Ptolemaiida, a new order of Mammalia--with description of the cranium of Ptolemaia grangeri". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 92 (8): 3269–73. on line
Ptolemaiidae

Thulborn, T. & Turner, S. 2003. The last dicynodont: an Australian Cretaceous relict. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 270, 985-993.
Pantodonta - Note

Van Valen, L. 1969. The multiple origins of the placental carnivores. Evolution 23 (1): 118-130.
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Wible, J. R., G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek & R. J. Asher. 2007. Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary. Nature 447: 1003-1006. pdf
"Creodonts": Carnivores by Association

Wible, J. R., G. W. Rougier, M. J. Novacek, and R. J. Asher. 2009. The eutherian mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of Cretaceous Eutheria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 327: 1-123. pdf
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