New Jurassic Mammal Fossils From China

[Oxytropidoceras]

Discoveries of tree-dwelling and subterranean

beasts suggest earliest mammals’ incredible

diversity by Michelle Douglass, BBCNews

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150212-remarkable-early-mammals-revealed

Fossils show earliest mammals that lived in trees

and below ground by Shen Lu and Katie Hunt, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/asia/china-fossils-early-mammals/

2 Jurassic Mini Mammal Species Discovered in China

by Megan Gannon, Live Science, February 12, 2015

http://www.livescience.com/49800-jurassic-mini-mammal-fossils-discovered.html

Images: 2 Fossils of Tiny Early Mammals

http://www.livescience.com/49792-mammal-ancestors-images.html

The papers are:

Luo, Z.-X., Q.-J. Meng, Q. Ji, D. Liu, Y.-G. Zhang,

and A. I. Neander, 2015, Evolutionary development

in basal mammaliaforms as revealed by a docodontan.

Science. vol. 347, no. 6223, pp. 760-764

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/760.abstract

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223.toc

Meng, Q.-J., J. Qiang, Y.-G. Zhang, D. Liu, D. M.

Grossnickle, and Z.-X. Luo, 2015, An arboreal docodont

from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological

diversification. Science. vol. 347, no. 6223, pp. 764-768.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/764.abstract

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223.toc

Yours,

Paul H.