Brawn before bite in endemic Asian eutherian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction
Zhijie Jack Tseng, Qian Li, Suyin Ting
This paper shows that Paleocene placental mammals in China developed high tooth size disparity early, tracked environmental changes in dental shape later, and achieved maximum dental shape-performance integration within 10 million years post-K-Pg extinction.
bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2025Paleontology