Chameleons may have 'rafted' from Africa to Madagascar - Open Access Papers

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Kenyan fossil reveals chameleons may have 

'rafted' from Africa to Madagascar

by Andrej Čerňanský, The Conversation

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-kenyan-fossil-reveals-chameleons-rafted.html

 

The open access  papers are:

 

Tolley, K.A., Townsend, T.M. and Vences, M., 2013. 

Large-scale phylogeny of chameleons suggests African 

origins and Eocene diversification. Proceedings of the 

Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1759), p.20130184.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2013.0184

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2013.0184

 

Čerňanský, A., Herrel, A., Kibii, J.M., Anderson, C.V., 

Boistel, R. and Lehmann, T., 2020. The only complete 

articulated early Miocene chameleon skull (Rusinga 

Island, Kenya) suggests an African origin for Madagascar’s 

endemic chameleons. Scientific Reports, 10(1), pp.1-11.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57014-5

 

A related paper is:

 

Kappeler, P.M., 2000. Lemur origins: rafting by groups

of hibernators?. Folia Primatologica, 71(6), pp.422-425.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12174623_Lemur_Origins_Rafting_by_Groups_of_Hibernators

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Kappeler/4

 

Yours,

 

Paul