The delayed rise of present-day mammals

Bininda-Edmonds, Olaf R P; Cardillo, Marcel; Jones, Kate E.; MacPhee, Ross D E; Beck, Robin M D; Grenyer, Richard; Price, Samantha A; Vos, Rutger A; Gittleman, John L.; Purvis, Andy

The delayed rise of present-day mammals

Date

2007

Authors

Bininda-Edmonds, Olaf R P

Cardillo, Marcel

Jones, Kate E.

MacPhee, Ross D E

Beck, Robin M D

Grenyer, Richard

Price, Samantha A

Vos, Rutger A

Gittleman, John L.

Purvis, Andy

Publisher

Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals? Here we construct, date and analyse a species-level phylogeny of nearly all extant