Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals

Pamela G. Gill (), Mark A. Purnell, Nick Crumpton, Kate Robson Brown, Neil J. Gostling, M. Stampanoni and Emily J. Rayfield ()
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Pamela G. Gill: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
Mark A. Purnell: University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Nick Crumpton: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
Kate Robson Brown: University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK
Neil J. Gostling: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
M. Stampanoni: Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Emily J. Rayfield: School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, 24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK

Nature, 2014, vol. 512, issue 7514, 303-305

Abstract: Differences in function and dietary ecology between Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium show that lineage splitting during the earliest stages of mammalian evolution was associated with ecomorphological specialization and niche partitioning.

Date: 2014
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