Literature and Web
pages
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Professor Z. Kielan-Jaworowska for her
authorisation to use pictures from her published literature.
Literature
Comprehensive overview
Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., Cifelli, R.L. and Luo, Z.X. 2004.Mammals from
the age of dinosaurs: origins, evolution, and structure.
Columbia University Press, New York. Chapter 8.
Specific topics
Butler, P.M. and Hooker, J.J. 2005. New teeth of
allotherian mammals
from the English Bathonian, including the earliest multituberculates.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50 (2):
185–207.
Hurum, J.H. 1998. The inner ear of two late Cretaceous
multituberculate
mammals, and its implications for multituberculate hearing. Journal of
Mammalian Evolution 5 (1): 65-93.
Hurum, J.H., Luo, Z−X., and Kielan−Jaworowska, Z.
2006. Were mammals originally venomous? Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
51 (1): 1–11.
Jenkins, F.A. and Krause, D.W. 1983. Adaptations for
climbing in North
American multituberculates (Mammalia). Science 220 (4598): 712-715.
Kielan−Jaworowska, Z. and Hurum, J.H. 2006. Limb
posture in
early mammals: Sprawling or parasagittal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
51 (3): 393–406.
Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. and Hurum, J.H. 2001. Phylogeny and
systematics
of multituberculate mammals. Palaeontology 44 (3):
389–429.
Krause, D.W. 1982. Jaw movement, dental function, and
diet in the
Paleocene multituberculate Ptilodus.
Paleobiology 8(3): 265-281.
Krause, D.W. 1986. Competitive exclusion and taxonomic
displacement in
the fossil record: the case of rodents and multituberculates in North
America. In
Flanagan, K.M. and Lillegraven, J.A. eds. Vertebrates, phylogeny, and
philosophy. Contributions to Geology, University of
Wyoming, Special Paper 3.
Meng, J. and Wyss, A.R. 1995. Monotreme affinities and
low-frequency
hearing suggested by multituberculate ear. Nature 377: 141-144.
Wible, J.R. and Rougier, G.W. 2000. Cranial anatomy of Kryptobaatar dashzevegi
(Mammalia, Multituberculata), and its bearing on the evolution of
mammalian characters. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural
History 247: 1-129.
Web links
Wikipedia website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multituberculata
Introduction to Multituberculates - Berkeley website
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/multis/multis.html
Palaeocene mammals
http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/multis.htm
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