Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691156828 |
Skeleton of Eobasileus - from the Order Dinocerata, which is difficult to place in the mammalian tree. Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie Comparée, Paris. |
Skeleton of the huge hedgehog Deinogalerix koenigswaldi. National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, the Netherlands Photo by Peter Maas (CC BY-SA 3.0) |
Reconstruction of the ground sloth Eremotherium. Exhibit in the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia. Photo by Daderot (CC0) |
Figures showing phylogenetic trees suffer from a similar deficiency. One from the rodent chapter is credited to E.T. Prothero. It is redrawn from a paper on the Laotian rock rat (Laonastes) by Huchon et al. (here). The reader is ill served by not being guided to the source papers.
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