Past Press Releases
Microdocodon
Zhou, C.-F. Bhullar, B.-A. S., Neander, A. I., Martin, T. and Z.-X, Luo. 2019. New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones. Science. 365: 276-279. (doi: 10:1126/science.aau9345)
Cifelliodon
Huttenlocker, A. K., Grossnickle, D. M., Kirkland, J. I., Schultz, J. A., and Z.-X. Luo. 2018. Late-surviving stem mammal links the lowermost Cretaceous of North America and Gondwana. Nature. 558:109-112 (doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0126-y)
Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon
Meng, Q.-J., Grossnickle, D. M., Liu, D., Zhang, Y.-G., Neander, A. I., Ji, Q., and Z.-X. Luo. 2017. New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic. Nature 548: 291-296. (doi:10.1038/nature23476).
Luo, Z.-X., Meng, Q.-J., Grossnickle, D. M., Liu, D., Zhang, Y.-G., Neander, A. I., and Ji, Q. 2017. New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem. Nature 548: 326-329 (doi:10.1038/nature23483).
Spinolestes
Martin, T., Marugán-Lobón, J., Vullo, R., Martín-Abad, H., Luo, Z.X., Buscalioni, A.D. (2015). A Cretaceous eutriconodont and integument evolution of early mammals. Nature, in press.
Docofossor and Agilodocodon
Luo, Z. X., Meng, Q.M., Ji, Q., Zhang, Y.G., Neander, A.I. (2015). Evolutionary development in basal mammaliaforms as revealed by a docodontan Science, 347(6223), 760-764.
Meng, Q.M., Ji, Q., Zhang, Y.G., Liu, D., Grossnickle, D.M., Luo, Z. X. (2015). An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological diversification Science, 347(6223), 764-768.
Rugosodon
Yuan, C. X., Ji, Q., Meng, Q. J., Tabrum, A. R., & Luo, Z. X. (2013). Earliest evolution of multituberculate mammals revealed by a new Jurassic fossil. Science, 341(6147), 779-783.
Megaconus
Zhou, C. F., Wu, S., Martin, T., & Luo, Z. X. (2013). A Jurassic mammaliaform and the earliest mammalian evolutionary adaptations. Nature, 500(7461), 163-167.