The Rise of Placental Mammals: Dissecting an Evolutionary Radiation

Project Information

PalM

Grant agreement ID: 756226

DOI

10.3030/756226

Project closed

EC signature date 19 September 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 418 195,00

EU contribution

€ 1 418 195,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Divergence-time estimates for hominins provide insight into encephalization and body mass trends in human evolution

Author(s): Hans P. Püschel; Ornella C. Bertrand; Joseph E. O'Reilly; René Bobe; Thomas A. Püschel
Published in: Nature Ecology and Evolution, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01431-1

Anatomy and phylogeny of a new small macraucheniid (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the Bahía Inglesa Formation (late Miocene), Atacama Region, Northern Chile

Author(s): Hans P. Püschel, Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz, Sergio Soto-Acuña, Raúl Ugalde, Sarah L. Shelley & Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2023, ISSN 1064-7554
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10914-022-09646-0

The skull evolution of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs: the role of niche partitioning in diversification.

Author(s): Waisum Ma; Stephen L. Brusatte; Junchang Lü; Manabu Sakamoto
Published in: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 1010-061X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13557

Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous

Author(s): Jorge García-Girón; Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza; Janne Alahuhta; David G. DeMar; Jani Heino; Philip D. Mannion; Thomas E. Williamson; Gregory P. Wilson Mantilla; Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add5040

The impact of locomotion on the brain evolution of squirrels and close relatives

Author(s): Ornella C. Bertrand, Hans P. Püschel, Julia A. Schwab, Mary T. Silcox & Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 460, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01887-8

Quantitative assessment of tarsal morphology illuminates locomotor behaviour in Palaeocene mammals following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Author(s): Sarah L. Shelley; Stephen L. Brusatte; Thomas E. Williamson
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0393

Spatial and temporal distribution of the island-dwelling Kogaionidae (Mammalia, Multituberculata) in the uppermost Cretaceous of Transylvania (Western Romania)

Author(s): Csiki-Sava, Zoltán; Vremir, Mátyás; Meng, Jin (Paleontologist); Vasile, Ștefan; Brusatte, Stephen; Norell, Mark
Published in: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Issue 456, 2022, Page(s) 1-109, ISSN 0003-0090
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History
DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.456.1.1

The Brain and Inner Ear of the Early Paleocene “Condylarth” Carsioptychus coarctatus : Implications for Early Placental Mammal Neurosensory Biology and Behavior

Author(s): Joe Cameron, Sarah L. Shelley, Thomas E. Williamson, Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: The Anatomical Record, Issue 302/2, 2019, Page(s) 306-324, ISSN 1932-8486
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ar.23903

The osteology of Periptychus carinidens: A robust, ungulate-like placental mammal (Mammalia: Periptychidae) from the Paleocene of North America

Author(s): Sarah L. Shelley, Thomas E. Williamson, Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/7, 2018, Page(s) e0200132, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200132

Dome-headed, small-brained island mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Romania

Author(s): Zoltán Csiki-Sava, Mátyás Vremir, Jin Meng, Stephen L. Brusatte, Mark A. Norell
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/19, 2018, Page(s) 4857-4862, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801143115

Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity

Author(s): Thomas Guillerme, Natalie Cooper, Stephen L. Brusatte, Katie E. Davis, Andrew L. Jackson, Sylvain Gerber, Anjali Goswami, Kevin Healy, Melanie J. Hopkins, Marc E. H. Jones, Graeme T. Lloyd, Joseph E. O'Reilly, Abi Pate, Mark N. Puttick, Emily J. Rayfield, Erin E. Saupe, Emma Sherratt, Graham J. Slater, Vera Weisbecker, Gavin H. Thomas, Philip C. J. Donoghue
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 16/7, 2020, Page(s) 20200199, ISSN 1744-9561
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0199

Virtual endocranial and inner ear endocasts of the Paleocene ‘condylarth’ Chriacus : new insight into the neurosensory system and evolution of early placental mammals

Author(s): Ornella C. Bertrand, Sarah L. Shelley, John R. Wible, Thomas E. Williamson, Luke T. Holbrook, Stephen G.B. Chester, Ian B. Butler, Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, Issue 236/1, 2019, Page(s) 21-49, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13084

Early Paleocene Magnetostratigraphy and Revised Biostratigraphy of the Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Lower Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA

Author(s): Andrew G. Flynn, Adam J. Davis, Thomas E. Williamson, Matthew Heizler, C. William Fenley IV, Caitlin E. Leslie, Ross Secord, Stephen L. Brusatte, Daniel J. Peppe
Published in: GSA Bulletin, 2020, ISSN 0016-7606
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/b35481.1

Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study

Author(s): J. GARCÍA–GIRÓN, J. Heino, J. Alahuhta, A.A. Chiarenza, S.L. Brusatte
Published in: Palaeontology, 2021, Page(s) 335-357, ISSN 1475-4983
Publisher: Palaeontological Association
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12526

The origin of placental mammal life histories

Author(s): Gregory Funston, Paige Depolo, Jakub T. Sliwinski, Matthew Dumont, Sarah Shelley, Laetitia Pichevin, Nicola Cayzer, John R. Wible, Thomas E. Williamson, James W. B. Rae, Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: Nature, 2022, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05150-w

The virtual brain endocast of Trogosus (Mammalia, Tillodontia) and its relevance in understanding the extinction of archaic placental mammals

Author(s): Ornella C. Bertrand, Marina Jiménez Lao, Sarah L. Shelley, John R. Wible, Thomas E. Williamson, Jin Meng, Stephen L. Brusatte
Published in: Journal of Anatomy, 2024, ISSN 0021-8782
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/joa.13951

Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

Author(s): OC Bertrand, SL Shelley, TE Williamson, JR Wible, SGB Chester, JJ Flynn, LT Holbrook, TR Lyson, J Meng, IM Miller, H Puschel, T Smith, M Spaulding, ZJ Tseng, SL Brusatte
Published in: Science, Issue 376, 2022, Page(s) 80-85, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abl5584

Petrosal Anatomy of the Paleocene Eutherian Mammal Deltatherium fundaminis (Cope, 1881)

Author(s): S.L. Shelley, O.C. Bertrand, S.L. Brusatte, T.E. Williamson
Published in: Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Issue 28, 2021, Page(s) 1161–1180, ISSN 1064-7554
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10914-021-09568-3