<i>Sivatupaia ramnagarensis</i> and the origin of the subfamily Crocidurinae (Soricidae, Mammalia)
Scandentians, commonly known as treeshrews (tree shrews), are the sister group of primates and colugos within the Euarchonta, a clade with an evolutionary history rooted in the Cretaceous (Roberts et al., 2011; Melin et al., 2016). Scandentians are, however, extremely rare in the fossil record (Ni and Qiu, 2012; Li and Ni, 2016) and, other than the Oligocene species Ptilocercus kylin Li and Ni, 2016, their earliest undoubted representatives are not older than 18 Ma (Li and Ni, 2016, and references therein).
Authors
- Marc Furió (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-3268)
- Jordi Agustı́ (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7240-1992)
- S. Pal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8545-624X)
- Pedro Piñero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5626-2777)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Paleontology
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2024.39
- Primary Topic
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- American Museum of Natural History
- Field Museum
- Centres de Recerca de Catalunya
- European Commission
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- University of Toronto
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
- Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
- University of Toronto Scarborough
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación