Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology

Section 1: Non-primate Mammals
1. Earliest evidence of Deltatheroida (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the Early Cretaceous of North America
Brian M. Davis, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

2. Evolution of hind limb proportions in kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea)
Benjamin P. Kear, Michael S. Y. Lee, Wayne R. Gerdtz, and Tim F. Flannery

3. Changing views in paleontology: the story of a giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra)
Christine Argot

4. Evolutionary morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia) forelimb skeleton
Justine A. Salton and Eric J. Sargis

5. Postcranial morphology of Apheliscus and Haplomylus (Condylarthra, Apheliscidae): evidence for a Paleocene Holarctic origin of Macroscelidea
Tonya A. Penkrot, Shawn P. Zack, Kenneth D. Rose, and Jonathan I. Bloch

6. Postcranial skeleton of the Upper Paleocene (Itaboraian) 'Condylarthra' (Mammalia) of the Itaboraí Basin, Brazil
Lilian P. Berqvist

7. Postcranial osteology of mammals from Salla, Bolivia (late Oligocene): form, function, and phylogenetic implications
Bruce J. Shockey and Frederico Anaya

8. Evolution of the proximal third phalanx in Oligocene-Miocene equids, and the utility of phalangeal indices in phylogeny reconstruction
Jay A. O'Sullivan

9. Adaptive zones and the pinniped ankle: a three-dimensional quantitative analysis of carnivoran tarsal evolution
P. David Polly

Section 2: Primates
10. The biogeographic origins of Primates and Euprimates: East, West, North, or South of Eden?
Mary T. Silcox

11. Evaluating the mitten-gliding hypothesis for Paromomyidae and Micromomyidae (Mammalia, 'Plesiadapiformes') using comparative functional morphology of new Paleogene skeletons
Douglas M. Boyer and Jonathan I. Bloch

12. Morphological diversity in the skulls of large adapines (Primates, Adapiformes) and its systematic implications
Marc Godinot and Sébastien Couette

13. Primate tibiae from the middle Eocene Shanghuang fissure-fillings of eastern China
Marian Dagosto, Daniel L. Gebo, Xijun Ni, Tao Qi, and K. Christopher Beard

14. Rooneyia, postorbital closure, and the beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea
Alfred L. Rosenberger, Russell Hogg, and Sai Man Wong

15. Epitensoric position of the chorda tympani in Anthropoidea: a new synapomorphic character, with remarks on the fissura Glaseri in Primates
Wolfgang Maier

16. Evolutionary morphology of the guenon postcranium and its taxonomic implications
Eric J. Sargis, Carl J. Terranova, and Daniel L. Gebo

17. Analysis of selected hominoid joint surfaces using laser scanning and geometric morphometrics: a preliminary report
William E. H. Harcourt-Smith, Melissa Tallman, Stephen R. Frost, David F. Wiley, F. James Rohlf, and Eric Delson

18. Comparative primate bone microstructure: records of life history, function, and phylogeny
Johanna Warshaw