Mid-Cenozoic climate change, extinction, and faunal turnover in Madagascar, and their bearing on the evolution of lemurs

Mid-Cenozoic climate change, extinction, and faunal turnover in Madagascar, and their bearing on the evolution of lemurs

Abstract Background Was there a mid-Cenozoic vertebrate extinction and recovery event in Madagascar and, if so, what are its implications for the evolution of lemurs? The near lack of an early and mid-Cenozoic fossil record on Madagascar has inhibited direct testing of any such hypotheses. We compar...

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Main Authors: Laurie R. Godfrey, Karen E. Samonds, Justin W. Baldwin, Michael R. Sutherland, Jason M. Kamilar, Kristen L. Allfisher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Primate
Diversification
Eocene-Oligocene transition
Mid-Cenozoic extinction
Colonization
Fossils
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-020-01628-1

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