North to south or south to north: what was the dispersal direction of two Mesozoic mammal groups?

Numerous mammalian biogeographers since the late 19th Century have envisioned that major mammalian groups originated in the Northern Hemisphere and subsequently dispersed to the Southern Hemisphere. A small number of Mesozoic mammalian fossils reported from the Southern Hemisphere since 1997 predate the oldest occurrence of two major mammalian groups, tribosphenidans and cimolodontan multituberculates, in the Northern Hemisphere. This suggests that dispersals of those two groups were from the South to the North rather than vice versa.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
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2026-09-11
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https://doi.org/10.1071/rs26001
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Evolution and Paleontology Studies
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North to south or south to north: what was the dispersal direction of two Mesozoic mammal groups?

Lesley Kool, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Timothy F. Flannery, Sally Rogers-Davidson et al.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
Evolution and Paleontology Studies
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North to south or south to north: what was the dispersal direction of two Mesozoic mammal groups?

Lesley Kool, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Timothy F. Flannery, Sally Rogers-Davidson, Thomas H. Rich
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Numerous mammalian biogeographers since the late 19th Century have envisioned that major mammalian groups originated in the Northern Hemisphere and subsequently dispersed to the Southern Hemisphere. A small number of Mesozoic mammalian fossils reported from the Southern Hemisphere since 1997 predate the oldest occurrence of two major mammalian groups, tribosphenidans and cimolodontan multituberculates, in the Northern Hemisphere. This suggests that dispersals of those two groups were from the South to the North rather than vice versa.

Proceedings of the Royal Society of VictoriaVol. 138(1)
Australian Museum (AU), Curtin University (AU), Museums Victoria (AU), Monash University (AU)
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North to south or south to north: what was the dispersal direction of two Mesozoic mammal groups? — Lesley Kool, Patricia Vickers-Rich, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS