Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dos Reis, Mario ^a   Donoghue, Philip C J ^b   Yang, Ziheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Divergence time; Fossil; Placental mammal

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CRETACEOUS; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; PALEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84893874728     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.1003     Document Type: Article

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