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Mark S Springer Robert W Meredith Jan E Janecka and William J Murphy The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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Phil Trans R Soc B (2011) 366 2478ndash2502
doi101098rstb20110023
Research
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The historical biogeography of MammaliaMark S Springer1 Robert W Meredith1 Jan E Janecka2
and William J Murphy2
1Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA2Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Texas AampM University College Station TX 77843 USA
Palaeobiogeographic reconstructions are underpinned by phylogenies divergence times and ances-tral area reconstructions which together yield ancestral area chronograms that provide a basis forproposing and testing hypotheses of dispersal and vicariance Methods for area coding includemulti-state coding with a single character binary coding with multiple characters and stringcoding Ancestral reconstruction methods are divided into parsimony versus Bayesianlikelihoodapproaches We compared nine methods for reconstructing ancestral areas for placental mammalsAmbiguous reconstructions were a problem for all methods Important differences resulted fromcoding areas based on the geographical ranges of extant species versus the geographical provenanceof the oldest fossil for each lineage Africa and South America were reconstructed as the ancestralareas for Afrotheria and Xenarthra respectively Most methods reconstructed Eurasia as the ances-tral area for Boreoeutheria Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria The coincidence of moleculardates for the separation of Afrotheria and Xenarthra at approximately 100 Ma with the plate tec-tonic sundering of Africa and South America hints at the importance of vicariance in the earlyhistory of Placentalia Dispersal has also been important including the origins of Madagascarrsquosendemic mammal fauna Further studies will benefit from increased taxon sampling and theapplication of new ancestral area reconstruction methods
Keywords ancestral areas dispersal historical biogeography Mammalia vicariance
1 INTRODUCTIONClass Mammalia is impressive for its taxonomic ecologi-cal and morphological diversity [1] A fundamental goalof mammalian palaeobiogeography is to reconstruct theunderlying history of vicariant and dispersal events thathave shaped this diversity Here we highlight theimportance of phylogeny reconstruction ancestral areareconstruction and molecular dating for producingancestral area chronograms We compare differentapproaches for reconstructing ancestral areas andillustrate similarities and differences between theseapproaches using a dataset for placental mammals Weconclude with a review of selected topics in placentalmammal palaeogeography that illustrates how phyloge-nies ancestral area reconstructions molecular datesand palaeographic histories have reshaped our views onmammalian historical biogeography Finally we identifyimportant areas for future inquiry
2 PHYLOGENY RECONSTRUCTIONPhylogeny reconstruction begins with character dataLarge molecular datasets have yielded robust phyloge-nies for many groups thereby reducing the number of
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tribution of 12 to a Theme Issue lsquoGlobal biodiversity oflsrsquo
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phylogenetic hypotheses that must be considered whenformulating ancestral area chronograms The inclusionof morphological data from fossils allows for taxono-mically richer phylogenies while also providing keydata points that bear on the geographical provenanceof a taxonomic group In the words of Simpson [2]fossils lsquoare the historical documents of animal distri-butionrsquo Fossils are also more difficult to place withconfidence in a phylogenetic framework owing to miss-ing (molecular) data and the inability of currentmethods to separate homology and homoplasy withsome morphological datasets [34]
Maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likeli-hood (ML) yield a single best tree(s) whereasBayesian methods yield a sampling of trees from pos-terior probability space ML and Bayesian methodshave the advantage of incorporating models ofsequence evolution and yield trees with branchlengths Some ancestral area reconstruction methodssuch as those implemented in SIMMAP [5] cantake advantage of trees with branch lengths as wellas multiple trees from posterior probability space
Phylogeny reconstruction is usually the first step inconstructing an ancestral area chronogram followedby the estimation of divergence times at each of thenodes However BEAST [6] allows for simultaneousestimation of branching relationships and divergencetimes After reconstructing a phylogeny molecular
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palaeobiogeographicreconstructions
phylogenies
paleontologicaldata
chronograms
ancestral areachronograms
moleculardating
palaeogeographicreconstructions
geophysicsclimatologysedimentologystratigraphygeology
phylogenyreconstruction
ancestral areareconstruction
neontologicaldata
general area chronogram
Figure 1 A flowchart of the approach used for incorporating different types of data in conjunction with methods in phylogenyreconstruction molecular dating and ancestral area reconstruction for inferring ancestral area chronograms and palaeobiogeo-graphic history
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dating analyses and ancestral area reconstructions canbe performed in parallel or in series and thenintegrated to yield an ancestral area chronogram(figure 1)
3 MOLECULAR DATING ANALYSESMolecular clocks were introduced by Zuckerkandl ampPauling [7] but have fallen out of favour owing tothe prevalence of lineage-specific rate variation Theemergence of relaxed molecular clock methods haspromoted a resurgence of studies that have examinedboth interordinal and intraordinal divergence timesin Mammalia [8ndash23] Relaxed clock methods includepenalized likelihood approaches [2425] and BayesianMarkov chain Monte Carlo methods such as multidiv-time [26] BEAST [6] and mcmctree [27] It is useful tocompare both the results of different programs and theresults of the same program under different model andparameter settings [28ndash30]
An important difference between BEASTand multi-divtime is that BEAST allows rates to vary randomlyover lineages in a phylogeny whereas multidivtimeassumes autocorrelated rates In simulation studiesBEAST performed poorly when rates were autocorre-lated whereas multidivtime performed poorly whenthere was uncorrelated rate variation [28] Giventhese results Battistuzzi et al [28] recommended com-posite 95 credibility intervals
Relaxed clock methods allow for multiple calibra-tions including minimum and maximum constraintson individual nodes Multidivtime only allows forlsquohardrsquo constraints whereas BEAST and mcmctree pro-vide other options including lsquosoftrsquo constraints thatpermit specification of a given percentage (eg 95)of the normal distribution between the minimumand maximum with half of the remainder (eg25) allocated to each tail
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4 ANCESTRAL AREA RECONSTRUCTIONMethods for reconstructing historical biogeographyinclude dispersalism phylogenetic biogeography pan-biogeography parsimony analysis of endemicity andcladistic biogeography [31] Early reconstructions ofmammalian historical biogeography were based on dis-persalism and land bridges [232] and pre-date thegeneral acceptance of plate tectonic theory Sub-sequently cladistic biogeography emphasized vicarianceas the most important factor in diversification bydiscovering dichotomous area relationships (area clado-grams) from taxon cladograms In response to thisparadigm which paid little regard to dispersal andextinction Ronquist [33] proposed dispersalndashvicarianceanalysis (DIVA) for reconstructing patterns of historicalbiogeography [34] DIVA infers ancestral areas by mini-mizing the number of dispersal and extinction eventsRecent methods that build on Ronquistrsquos work includeBayes-DIVA [35] and dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis(DEC) [3637]
A fundamental issue in ancestral area reconstructionis area coding Areas are usually coded to include theentire geographical range of each species Other optionsinclude coding the entire area of the monophyletic cladethat is represented by the species or the geographicalarea of the oldest fossil belonging to each lineage Anadditional topic worthy of investigation is the problemof coding geographical areas for taxa from the geologicalpast versus the present given that areas as well as theirboundaries and physical relationships to each othercan fluctuate over time Parametric methods such asDEC which allow for changing dispersal probabilitiesover time provide a mechanism to accommodate theimpact of continental fragmentation and suturing on his-torical biogeography
Three general approaches are available for codingareas (box 1) whether for living species fossils orlarger monophyletic groups The first method is
Box 1 Methods for coding areas and analysing area-coded data matrices
I Area coding1 single multi-state character coding Individual character states are non-overlapping and correspond to a single areadisadvantages ranges are limited to a single area (character state) unless they are coded as polymorphic2 binary character coding with multiple characters Each binary character corresponds to the presenceabsence of a taxonin a single areaadvantages allows for the occupation of multiple areasdisadvantages ancestral areas may receive no state assignments3 string character coding (frac14polymorphism coding)advantages individual character states may include one or more areasdisadvantages the number of character states becomes intractable when there are too many individual areas
II Ancestral area reconstruction1 monomorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods are used in conjunction with area data that havebeen coded as a single multi-state charactera Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE)b stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP)advantages stochastic mapping allows for branch lengths and multiple treesdisadvantages methods in this category implicitly assume that different character states (areas) are homologous toeach other and attempt to find a single ancestral area (character state) at each node2 polymorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods allow for ancestral areas that encompass more thanone area and employ either binary character data for multiple characters or string character dataa Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE) with multiple binary charactersb stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP) with multiple binary charactersc dispersalndashvicariance (DIVA)d Bayes-DIVAe dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis (DEC)f minimum area change (MAC) parsimonyadvantages all methods in this category allow for reconstructions that include multiple areas per node Stochasticmapping and DEC incorporate branch lengths stochastic mapping and Bayes-DIVA allow for multiple treesdisadvantages methods that employ multiple binary characters can result in empty ancestral area reconstructionsFitch parsimony MAC parsimony and DIVA ignore branch length information DIVA Bayes-DIVA and DEC arebiased towards ancestral reconstructions that include numerous individual areas
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single character multi-state coding with non-overlap-ping character states The second method is binarycharacter coding with multiple characters whereeach character represents the presence or absence ofa taxon in a single area In contrast to the firstmethod this approach allows ancestral nodes toencompass more than one area Ancestral area recon-structions are simply the sum of the individual areareconstructions A disadvantage of this approach isthat ancestral areas may receive lsquono-statersquo assignmentswhich imply empty ancestral areas No-state assign-ments are an artefact of the character independenceassumption [38] Finally string character coding[37] allows individual character states to include oneor more geographical areas Specifically the geo-graphical range of a species is coded as a stringdenoting its presenceabsence in a set of individualareas Ree amp Smithrsquos [37] string character coding isequivalent to Maddison amp Maddisonrsquos [39] poly-morphism coding
Ancestral reconstruction methods can be dividedinto parsimony versus Bayesianlikelihood approaches[40] Only the latter takes advantage of branch lengthsAnother useful distinction is between methods thatreconstruct ancestral nodes as monomorphic characterstates versus those that allow for range expansion andcontraction
MP and ML methods employ discrete-state tran-sition models and reconstruct ancestral nodes asmonomorphic Monomorphic methods for character
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state reconstruction assume that different characterstates are homologous to each other as is the casefor characters that pass Pattersonrsquos [41] conjunctiontest which states that two structures that are foundin the same organism cannot be homologous How-ever this test is nonsensical when applied togeographical areas because the presence of a speciesin one area does not rule out its presence in anotherarea
Other ancestral range reconstruction methods havethe advantage of allowing for polymorphic ancestralstates and thereby accommodating range expansionand contraction (box 1) [40] Polymorphic reconstruc-tions can be achieved using (i) monomorphic methodswith multiple binary characters each of which codesfor the presenceabsence of a taxon in one area and(ii) polymorphic methods that allow ancestral nodesto include one or more areas
Fitch parsimony and stochastic mapping can beused to reconstruct ancestral nodes for multiplebinary characters and then summed over all characterreconstructions to obtain the complete set of areas foreach ancestral node One difficulty is ancestral nodeswith no-state assignments In these instances multipleinterpretations are possible including vicariance of anancestral area that was not included in the originalanalysis If there is geological evidence for formerlycontiguous areas this information may be incorpor-ated into ancillary characters to assist ancestral areareconstructions
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O A mdash 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 3 B 2 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 2 3 C 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 3 D 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 E 1 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 3 2 F 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 2 G 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 2 H 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 I 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 2 J 3 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 1 2 K 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 1 L 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 1 M 2 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 2 1 N 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 mdash 1 O 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 mdash
A = Africa B = Eurasia C = North America D = South America E = Africa + Eurasia F = Africa + North America G = Africa + South America H = Eurasia + North America I = Eurasia + South America
J = North America + South America
K = Africa + Eurasia + North America
L = Africa + Eurasia + South America
M = Africa + North America + South America
N = Eurasia + North America + South America
O = Africa + Eurasia + North America + South America
Figure 2 Example of a step matrix for minimum area change (MAC) parsimony MAC parsimony assigns equal cost to allgains and losses of an area For example a change in area from A (Africa) to G (Africa thorn South America) requires onestep (gain South America) whereas a change from A to H (Eurasia thornNorth America) requires three steps (Africa loss Eurasiagain North America gain) The step matrix is fully symmetrical
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In contrast to methods that were co-opted fromphylogenetics DIVA [33] and DEC [363742] weredeveloped explicitly for historical biogeographicreconstruction DIVA assigns no cost to widespreadancestral areas that are subdivided by vicariance butassigns a cost to dispersal and local extinctionevents DIVA ignores branch lengths DEC uses a con-tinuous time model for geographical range evolutionand employs string character coding to accommodatepolymorphic areas DEC permits range expansionthrough dispersal events and range contractionthrough local extinction events DEC also allowsareas of implausible distribution to be excludedsuch as those that are geographically discontinuous[43] DIVA and DEC are prone to reconstructingancestral areas that include too many individualareas especially towards the root of the tree Howeverboth programmes have options for limiting thenumber of ancestral areas
An additional approach that we introduce is mini-mum area change (MAC) parsimony which usespolymorphic character coding [39] and Sankoff optim-ization and can be implemented with MESQUITE [44]MAC parsimony requires a step matrix (figure 2) Incontrast to DIVA MAC parsimony assigns equal costto all gains and losses of an area whether through dis-persal local extinction or vicariance An advantage ofthis approach is that it should be less prone than DIVAto reconstructing ancestral areas that are too broadrelative to terminal taxa
Another recent approach that builds on earlier cla-distic biogeography methods is phylogenetic analysisof comparing trees (PACT) [45ndash47] Unlike earlier
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cladistic biogeography methods PACT explicitlyincorporates molecular dates into general areacladograms
5 ANCESTRAL AREA CHRONOGRAMS ANDPALAEOGEOGRAPHYAncestral area chronograms are similar to ancestral areacladograms but additionally incorporate temporal infor-mation into their framework Alternate approaches forreconstructing phylogeny estimating divergence timesand reconstructing ancestral areas may yield differentancestral area chronograms each of which may beinterpreted in the context of geology-based palaeogeogra-phical hypotheses (figure 1) Ancestral area chronogramsin conjunction with geology-based palaeogeographicalreconstructions provide a framework for proposingtesting and refining palaeobiogeographic hypothesesAncestral area chronograms when interpreted in thecontext of palaeogeographical hypothesis yield insightsinto dispersal vicariance and area extinctions all ofwhich are incorporated into palaeobiogeographichypotheses (figure 1)
Ancestral area chronograms are taxon-specific butancestral area chronograms for multiple taxa that co-occur in the same region can yield general area chron-ograms General area chronograms are similar togeneral area cladograms but include temporal infor-mation that is absent from general area cladogramsThe fundamental idea behind cladistic biogeographyis that broad patterns which are revealed through gen-eral area cladograms demand comprehensive causalexplanations However general area cladograms
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ignore temporal information and may result frompseudo-congruence when taxonomic groups with thesame area relationships have different divergencetimes and presumably different underlying causes[48] Temporal information is critical for discriminat-ing between groups that diversified during the sametime period and therefore may have experienced thesame causal events and groups that diversifiedduring different time periods and require differentcausal explanations [48]
Just as there may be multiple ancestral area chro-nograms for a taxonomic group there may also bemultiple palaeogeographical hypotheses regarding thehistory of connections of formerly connected land-masses For example the lsquopan-Gondwananrsquo andlsquoAfrica-firstrsquo hypotheses represent alternate scenariosfor the breakup of Gondwana [49] Both hypothesesagree that the initial rift was between the African com-ponent of West Gondwana (Africa South America)and the Indo-Madagascar component of EastGondwana although connections between Africa andIndo-Madagascar were maintained via South Amer-icandashAntarctica Subsequent to this initial rift the pan-Gondwanan hypothesis [50] postulates that three vicar-iant separations South America from Africa SouthAmerica from Antarctica and Antarctica from Indo-Madagascar all occurred during a narrow timewindow (100ndash90 Ma) The Africa-first hypothesis inturn suggests that Africa was the first Gondwanan con-tinent to become completely separated from otherGondwanan landmasses when it separated fromSouth America by approximately 100 Ma Indo-Mada-gascar separated from AntarcticandashAustralia atapproximately 130ndash110 Ma but maintained subaerialconnections with Antarctica via the Kerguelen Plateauand possibly the Gunnerus Ridge to the west well intothe Late Cretaceous (approx 80 Ma) The final separ-ation was between the Antarctica Peninsula and the tipof South America in the Eocene
Krause et al [49] compared Cretaceous vertebratefaunas from different Gondwanan landmasses and con-cluded that palaeontological data are most compatiblewith a modified version of the Africa-first hypothesisKrause et alrsquos [49] work also illustrates how biogeographichypotheses based on fossils can be compared withgeology-based palaeogeographical hypotheses in anarena that allows for reciprocal illumination Thus ances-tral and general area chronograms provide a frameworkfor evaluating competing geology-based palaeogeo-graphical reconstructions just as geology-basedpalaeogeographical reconstructions provide a frameworkfor evaluating alternate ancestral area chronograms(figure 1) Krause et al [49] noted that there is no apriori reason to assume that geological data trumppalaeontological data or vice versa insofar as each typeof data can be used to reveal large-scale biogeographicpatterns
6 PLACENTAL PHYLOGENY AND ACOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ANCESTRALAREA RECONSTRUCTION METHODSMost placental orders have first fossil occurrences andprobable origins in Laurasia but there are also orders
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with Gondwanan origins based on first fossil occur-rences in South America (Xenarthra) or Africa (mostafrotherian orders) Traditional morphologicalphylogenies [5152] have suggested close relationshipsbetween Laurasian and Gondwanan orders egEdentata (Xenarthra (Gondwanan) thorn Pholidota(Laurasian)) By contrast molecular phylogenies haverecovered three superordinal groups AfrotheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires [353ndash63] thatwere not recovered on morphological trees Thesethree groups plus Xenarthra comprise the four majorclades of placental mammals There is also robust mol-ecular support for Boreoeutheria (EuarchontogliresthornLaurasiatheria) [60ndash6264] This overhaul of placentalphylogeny in conjunction with the results of moleculardating analyses laid the foundation for newbiogeographic hypotheses We discuss these in sect7 afterfirst comparing the results of different ancestralarea reconstruction methods in the remainder ofthis section
Ancestral area chronograms were reconstructed for43 fully terrestrial placental taxa from Springer et al[3] Chiropterans and fully aquatic forms wereexcluded because of their different modes of dispersal(ie flight swimming) and also because most fullyaquatic taxa inhabit areas (ie oceans) that are notcontained in the four-area scheme used in our analyses(see below) Ancestral area chronograms were recon-structed using a ML phylogram obtained withRAXML [65] molecular divergence dates estimatedwith BEAST [6] and ancestral areas reconstructedwith a variety of methods
Four areas (Africa Eurasia North America andSouth America) were recognized and two methodswere used to code areas for terminal taxa Firstareas were coded based on the geographical ranges ofextant species Second areas were coded based onthe geographical provenance of the oldest fossil foreach lineage The step matrix that was used in MACparsimony analysis is shown in figure 2 Given thatthe number of character states that are chosen for geo-graphical range subdivision is arbitrary it may beinstructive to compare the results of analyses withcoarser (eg Gondwana versus Laurasia) and finer(eg Europe and Asia instead of Eurasia) scales forarea coding although the analyses reported here areconfined to the four areas listed above
We reconstructed ancestral areas using ninemethods (i) MAC parsimony (ii) Fitch parsimonywith multiple binary characters (FP-MBC) (iii) Fitchparsimony with a single multi-state character (FP-SMC) (iv) DIVA with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas per node (v) DIVA with a maximumof two areas per node (DIVA-2) (vi) DEC with no con-straints on the maximum number of areas per node(vii) DEC with a maximum of two areas per node(DEC-2) (viii) stochastic mapping with multiplebinary characters (SM-MBC) and (ix) stochastic map-ping with a single multi-state character (SM-SMC)Ancestral area chronograms (MAC parsimony) basedon the geographical ranges of extant species and fossillineages are shown in figures 3 and 4 respectivelyTables 3 and 4 summarize the results of analyses withall nine methods
0204060
NeogeneQuaternary
CenozoicPaleogene
Ma
Upper Miocene PP
80
Paleoc
100
OligEoceneCretaceousMesozoic
Choloepus
Tamandua
MyrmecophagaEuphractus
Chaetophractus
Erinaceus
Talpa
Sorex
Echinops
Amblysomus
Procavia
Loxodonta
MacroscelidesElephantulus
Orycteropus
Tamias
Muscardinus
Mus
Rattus
PedetesHystrix
Castor
Dipodomys
CaviaHydrochaeris
Erethizon
SylvilagusOchotona
Cynocephalus
TupaiaLemur
Homo
Tarsius
Hippopotamus
Lama
Tragelaphus
Sus
Equus
Ceratotherium
TapirusFelis
Canis
Manis
Africa
South America
Eurasia
North America
Africa + EurasiaAfrica + North America
1
23
4
56
7
16
17
1819
20
2122
23
12
13
14
15
8
9
1011
31
32
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34
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3738
28
2930
2425
26
27
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40
Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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Hedges amp S Kumar) pp 466ndash470 Oxford UKOxford University Press
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Research
Autho
One conmamma
The historical biogeography of MammaliaMark S Springer1 Robert W Meredith1 Jan E Janecka2
and William J Murphy2
1Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA2Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Texas AampM University College Station TX 77843 USA
Palaeobiogeographic reconstructions are underpinned by phylogenies divergence times and ances-tral area reconstructions which together yield ancestral area chronograms that provide a basis forproposing and testing hypotheses of dispersal and vicariance Methods for area coding includemulti-state coding with a single character binary coding with multiple characters and stringcoding Ancestral reconstruction methods are divided into parsimony versus Bayesianlikelihoodapproaches We compared nine methods for reconstructing ancestral areas for placental mammalsAmbiguous reconstructions were a problem for all methods Important differences resulted fromcoding areas based on the geographical ranges of extant species versus the geographical provenanceof the oldest fossil for each lineage Africa and South America were reconstructed as the ancestralareas for Afrotheria and Xenarthra respectively Most methods reconstructed Eurasia as the ances-tral area for Boreoeutheria Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria The coincidence of moleculardates for the separation of Afrotheria and Xenarthra at approximately 100 Ma with the plate tec-tonic sundering of Africa and South America hints at the importance of vicariance in the earlyhistory of Placentalia Dispersal has also been important including the origins of Madagascarrsquosendemic mammal fauna Further studies will benefit from increased taxon sampling and theapplication of new ancestral area reconstruction methods
Keywords ancestral areas dispersal historical biogeography Mammalia vicariance
1 INTRODUCTIONClass Mammalia is impressive for its taxonomic ecologi-cal and morphological diversity [1] A fundamental goalof mammalian palaeobiogeography is to reconstruct theunderlying history of vicariant and dispersal events thathave shaped this diversity Here we highlight theimportance of phylogeny reconstruction ancestral areareconstruction and molecular dating for producingancestral area chronograms We compare differentapproaches for reconstructing ancestral areas andillustrate similarities and differences between theseapproaches using a dataset for placental mammals Weconclude with a review of selected topics in placentalmammal palaeogeography that illustrates how phyloge-nies ancestral area reconstructions molecular datesand palaeographic histories have reshaped our views onmammalian historical biogeography Finally we identifyimportant areas for future inquiry
2 PHYLOGENY RECONSTRUCTIONPhylogeny reconstruction begins with character dataLarge molecular datasets have yielded robust phyloge-nies for many groups thereby reducing the number of
r for correspondence (markspringerucredu)
tribution of 12 to a Theme Issue lsquoGlobal biodiversity oflsrsquo
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phylogenetic hypotheses that must be considered whenformulating ancestral area chronograms The inclusionof morphological data from fossils allows for taxono-mically richer phylogenies while also providing keydata points that bear on the geographical provenanceof a taxonomic group In the words of Simpson [2]fossils lsquoare the historical documents of animal distri-butionrsquo Fossils are also more difficult to place withconfidence in a phylogenetic framework owing to miss-ing (molecular) data and the inability of currentmethods to separate homology and homoplasy withsome morphological datasets [34]
Maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likeli-hood (ML) yield a single best tree(s) whereasBayesian methods yield a sampling of trees from pos-terior probability space ML and Bayesian methodshave the advantage of incorporating models ofsequence evolution and yield trees with branchlengths Some ancestral area reconstruction methodssuch as those implemented in SIMMAP [5] cantake advantage of trees with branch lengths as wellas multiple trees from posterior probability space
Phylogeny reconstruction is usually the first step inconstructing an ancestral area chronogram followedby the estimation of divergence times at each of thenodes However BEAST [6] allows for simultaneousestimation of branching relationships and divergencetimes After reconstructing a phylogeny molecular
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palaeobiogeographicreconstructions
phylogenies
paleontologicaldata
chronograms
ancestral areachronograms
moleculardating
palaeogeographicreconstructions
geophysicsclimatologysedimentologystratigraphygeology
phylogenyreconstruction
ancestral areareconstruction
neontologicaldata
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Figure 1 A flowchart of the approach used for incorporating different types of data in conjunction with methods in phylogenyreconstruction molecular dating and ancestral area reconstruction for inferring ancestral area chronograms and palaeobiogeo-graphic history
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dating analyses and ancestral area reconstructions canbe performed in parallel or in series and thenintegrated to yield an ancestral area chronogram(figure 1)
3 MOLECULAR DATING ANALYSESMolecular clocks were introduced by Zuckerkandl ampPauling [7] but have fallen out of favour owing tothe prevalence of lineage-specific rate variation Theemergence of relaxed molecular clock methods haspromoted a resurgence of studies that have examinedboth interordinal and intraordinal divergence timesin Mammalia [8ndash23] Relaxed clock methods includepenalized likelihood approaches [2425] and BayesianMarkov chain Monte Carlo methods such as multidiv-time [26] BEAST [6] and mcmctree [27] It is useful tocompare both the results of different programs and theresults of the same program under different model andparameter settings [28ndash30]
An important difference between BEASTand multi-divtime is that BEAST allows rates to vary randomlyover lineages in a phylogeny whereas multidivtimeassumes autocorrelated rates In simulation studiesBEAST performed poorly when rates were autocorre-lated whereas multidivtime performed poorly whenthere was uncorrelated rate variation [28] Giventhese results Battistuzzi et al [28] recommended com-posite 95 credibility intervals
Relaxed clock methods allow for multiple calibra-tions including minimum and maximum constraintson individual nodes Multidivtime only allows forlsquohardrsquo constraints whereas BEAST and mcmctree pro-vide other options including lsquosoftrsquo constraints thatpermit specification of a given percentage (eg 95)of the normal distribution between the minimumand maximum with half of the remainder (eg25) allocated to each tail
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4 ANCESTRAL AREA RECONSTRUCTIONMethods for reconstructing historical biogeographyinclude dispersalism phylogenetic biogeography pan-biogeography parsimony analysis of endemicity andcladistic biogeography [31] Early reconstructions ofmammalian historical biogeography were based on dis-persalism and land bridges [232] and pre-date thegeneral acceptance of plate tectonic theory Sub-sequently cladistic biogeography emphasized vicarianceas the most important factor in diversification bydiscovering dichotomous area relationships (area clado-grams) from taxon cladograms In response to thisparadigm which paid little regard to dispersal andextinction Ronquist [33] proposed dispersalndashvicarianceanalysis (DIVA) for reconstructing patterns of historicalbiogeography [34] DIVA infers ancestral areas by mini-mizing the number of dispersal and extinction eventsRecent methods that build on Ronquistrsquos work includeBayes-DIVA [35] and dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis(DEC) [3637]
A fundamental issue in ancestral area reconstructionis area coding Areas are usually coded to include theentire geographical range of each species Other optionsinclude coding the entire area of the monophyletic cladethat is represented by the species or the geographicalarea of the oldest fossil belonging to each lineage Anadditional topic worthy of investigation is the problemof coding geographical areas for taxa from the geologicalpast versus the present given that areas as well as theirboundaries and physical relationships to each othercan fluctuate over time Parametric methods such asDEC which allow for changing dispersal probabilitiesover time provide a mechanism to accommodate theimpact of continental fragmentation and suturing on his-torical biogeography
Three general approaches are available for codingareas (box 1) whether for living species fossils orlarger monophyletic groups The first method is
Box 1 Methods for coding areas and analysing area-coded data matrices
I Area coding1 single multi-state character coding Individual character states are non-overlapping and correspond to a single areadisadvantages ranges are limited to a single area (character state) unless they are coded as polymorphic2 binary character coding with multiple characters Each binary character corresponds to the presenceabsence of a taxonin a single areaadvantages allows for the occupation of multiple areasdisadvantages ancestral areas may receive no state assignments3 string character coding (frac14polymorphism coding)advantages individual character states may include one or more areasdisadvantages the number of character states becomes intractable when there are too many individual areas
II Ancestral area reconstruction1 monomorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods are used in conjunction with area data that havebeen coded as a single multi-state charactera Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE)b stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP)advantages stochastic mapping allows for branch lengths and multiple treesdisadvantages methods in this category implicitly assume that different character states (areas) are homologous toeach other and attempt to find a single ancestral area (character state) at each node2 polymorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods allow for ancestral areas that encompass more thanone area and employ either binary character data for multiple characters or string character dataa Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE) with multiple binary charactersb stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP) with multiple binary charactersc dispersalndashvicariance (DIVA)d Bayes-DIVAe dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis (DEC)f minimum area change (MAC) parsimonyadvantages all methods in this category allow for reconstructions that include multiple areas per node Stochasticmapping and DEC incorporate branch lengths stochastic mapping and Bayes-DIVA allow for multiple treesdisadvantages methods that employ multiple binary characters can result in empty ancestral area reconstructionsFitch parsimony MAC parsimony and DIVA ignore branch length information DIVA Bayes-DIVA and DEC arebiased towards ancestral reconstructions that include numerous individual areas
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single character multi-state coding with non-overlap-ping character states The second method is binarycharacter coding with multiple characters whereeach character represents the presence or absence ofa taxon in a single area In contrast to the firstmethod this approach allows ancestral nodes toencompass more than one area Ancestral area recon-structions are simply the sum of the individual areareconstructions A disadvantage of this approach isthat ancestral areas may receive lsquono-statersquo assignmentswhich imply empty ancestral areas No-state assign-ments are an artefact of the character independenceassumption [38] Finally string character coding[37] allows individual character states to include oneor more geographical areas Specifically the geo-graphical range of a species is coded as a stringdenoting its presenceabsence in a set of individualareas Ree amp Smithrsquos [37] string character coding isequivalent to Maddison amp Maddisonrsquos [39] poly-morphism coding
Ancestral reconstruction methods can be dividedinto parsimony versus Bayesianlikelihood approaches[40] Only the latter takes advantage of branch lengthsAnother useful distinction is between methods thatreconstruct ancestral nodes as monomorphic characterstates versus those that allow for range expansion andcontraction
MP and ML methods employ discrete-state tran-sition models and reconstruct ancestral nodes asmonomorphic Monomorphic methods for character
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state reconstruction assume that different characterstates are homologous to each other as is the casefor characters that pass Pattersonrsquos [41] conjunctiontest which states that two structures that are foundin the same organism cannot be homologous How-ever this test is nonsensical when applied togeographical areas because the presence of a speciesin one area does not rule out its presence in anotherarea
Other ancestral range reconstruction methods havethe advantage of allowing for polymorphic ancestralstates and thereby accommodating range expansionand contraction (box 1) [40] Polymorphic reconstruc-tions can be achieved using (i) monomorphic methodswith multiple binary characters each of which codesfor the presenceabsence of a taxon in one area and(ii) polymorphic methods that allow ancestral nodesto include one or more areas
Fitch parsimony and stochastic mapping can beused to reconstruct ancestral nodes for multiplebinary characters and then summed over all characterreconstructions to obtain the complete set of areas foreach ancestral node One difficulty is ancestral nodeswith no-state assignments In these instances multipleinterpretations are possible including vicariance of anancestral area that was not included in the originalanalysis If there is geological evidence for formerlycontiguous areas this information may be incorpor-ated into ancillary characters to assist ancestral areareconstructions
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O A mdash 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 3 B 2 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 2 3 C 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 3 D 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 E 1 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 3 2 F 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 2 G 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 2 H 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 I 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 2 J 3 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 1 2 K 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 1 L 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 1 M 2 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 2 1 N 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 mdash 1 O 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 mdash
A = Africa B = Eurasia C = North America D = South America E = Africa + Eurasia F = Africa + North America G = Africa + South America H = Eurasia + North America I = Eurasia + South America
J = North America + South America
K = Africa + Eurasia + North America
L = Africa + Eurasia + South America
M = Africa + North America + South America
N = Eurasia + North America + South America
O = Africa + Eurasia + North America + South America
Figure 2 Example of a step matrix for minimum area change (MAC) parsimony MAC parsimony assigns equal cost to allgains and losses of an area For example a change in area from A (Africa) to G (Africa thorn South America) requires onestep (gain South America) whereas a change from A to H (Eurasia thornNorth America) requires three steps (Africa loss Eurasiagain North America gain) The step matrix is fully symmetrical
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In contrast to methods that were co-opted fromphylogenetics DIVA [33] and DEC [363742] weredeveloped explicitly for historical biogeographicreconstruction DIVA assigns no cost to widespreadancestral areas that are subdivided by vicariance butassigns a cost to dispersal and local extinctionevents DIVA ignores branch lengths DEC uses a con-tinuous time model for geographical range evolutionand employs string character coding to accommodatepolymorphic areas DEC permits range expansionthrough dispersal events and range contractionthrough local extinction events DEC also allowsareas of implausible distribution to be excludedsuch as those that are geographically discontinuous[43] DIVA and DEC are prone to reconstructingancestral areas that include too many individualareas especially towards the root of the tree Howeverboth programmes have options for limiting thenumber of ancestral areas
An additional approach that we introduce is mini-mum area change (MAC) parsimony which usespolymorphic character coding [39] and Sankoff optim-ization and can be implemented with MESQUITE [44]MAC parsimony requires a step matrix (figure 2) Incontrast to DIVA MAC parsimony assigns equal costto all gains and losses of an area whether through dis-persal local extinction or vicariance An advantage ofthis approach is that it should be less prone than DIVAto reconstructing ancestral areas that are too broadrelative to terminal taxa
Another recent approach that builds on earlier cla-distic biogeography methods is phylogenetic analysisof comparing trees (PACT) [45ndash47] Unlike earlier
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cladistic biogeography methods PACT explicitlyincorporates molecular dates into general areacladograms
5 ANCESTRAL AREA CHRONOGRAMS ANDPALAEOGEOGRAPHYAncestral area chronograms are similar to ancestral areacladograms but additionally incorporate temporal infor-mation into their framework Alternate approaches forreconstructing phylogeny estimating divergence timesand reconstructing ancestral areas may yield differentancestral area chronograms each of which may beinterpreted in the context of geology-based palaeogeogra-phical hypotheses (figure 1) Ancestral area chronogramsin conjunction with geology-based palaeogeographicalreconstructions provide a framework for proposingtesting and refining palaeobiogeographic hypothesesAncestral area chronograms when interpreted in thecontext of palaeogeographical hypothesis yield insightsinto dispersal vicariance and area extinctions all ofwhich are incorporated into palaeobiogeographichypotheses (figure 1)
Ancestral area chronograms are taxon-specific butancestral area chronograms for multiple taxa that co-occur in the same region can yield general area chron-ograms General area chronograms are similar togeneral area cladograms but include temporal infor-mation that is absent from general area cladogramsThe fundamental idea behind cladistic biogeographyis that broad patterns which are revealed through gen-eral area cladograms demand comprehensive causalexplanations However general area cladograms
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ignore temporal information and may result frompseudo-congruence when taxonomic groups with thesame area relationships have different divergencetimes and presumably different underlying causes[48] Temporal information is critical for discriminat-ing between groups that diversified during the sametime period and therefore may have experienced thesame causal events and groups that diversifiedduring different time periods and require differentcausal explanations [48]
Just as there may be multiple ancestral area chro-nograms for a taxonomic group there may also bemultiple palaeogeographical hypotheses regarding thehistory of connections of formerly connected land-masses For example the lsquopan-Gondwananrsquo andlsquoAfrica-firstrsquo hypotheses represent alternate scenariosfor the breakup of Gondwana [49] Both hypothesesagree that the initial rift was between the African com-ponent of West Gondwana (Africa South America)and the Indo-Madagascar component of EastGondwana although connections between Africa andIndo-Madagascar were maintained via South Amer-icandashAntarctica Subsequent to this initial rift the pan-Gondwanan hypothesis [50] postulates that three vicar-iant separations South America from Africa SouthAmerica from Antarctica and Antarctica from Indo-Madagascar all occurred during a narrow timewindow (100ndash90 Ma) The Africa-first hypothesis inturn suggests that Africa was the first Gondwanan con-tinent to become completely separated from otherGondwanan landmasses when it separated fromSouth America by approximately 100 Ma Indo-Mada-gascar separated from AntarcticandashAustralia atapproximately 130ndash110 Ma but maintained subaerialconnections with Antarctica via the Kerguelen Plateauand possibly the Gunnerus Ridge to the west well intothe Late Cretaceous (approx 80 Ma) The final separ-ation was between the Antarctica Peninsula and the tipof South America in the Eocene
Krause et al [49] compared Cretaceous vertebratefaunas from different Gondwanan landmasses and con-cluded that palaeontological data are most compatiblewith a modified version of the Africa-first hypothesisKrause et alrsquos [49] work also illustrates how biogeographichypotheses based on fossils can be compared withgeology-based palaeogeographical hypotheses in anarena that allows for reciprocal illumination Thus ances-tral and general area chronograms provide a frameworkfor evaluating competing geology-based palaeogeo-graphical reconstructions just as geology-basedpalaeogeographical reconstructions provide a frameworkfor evaluating alternate ancestral area chronograms(figure 1) Krause et al [49] noted that there is no apriori reason to assume that geological data trumppalaeontological data or vice versa insofar as each typeof data can be used to reveal large-scale biogeographicpatterns
6 PLACENTAL PHYLOGENY AND ACOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ANCESTRALAREA RECONSTRUCTION METHODSMost placental orders have first fossil occurrences andprobable origins in Laurasia but there are also orders
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with Gondwanan origins based on first fossil occur-rences in South America (Xenarthra) or Africa (mostafrotherian orders) Traditional morphologicalphylogenies [5152] have suggested close relationshipsbetween Laurasian and Gondwanan orders egEdentata (Xenarthra (Gondwanan) thorn Pholidota(Laurasian)) By contrast molecular phylogenies haverecovered three superordinal groups AfrotheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires [353ndash63] thatwere not recovered on morphological trees Thesethree groups plus Xenarthra comprise the four majorclades of placental mammals There is also robust mol-ecular support for Boreoeutheria (EuarchontogliresthornLaurasiatheria) [60ndash6264] This overhaul of placentalphylogeny in conjunction with the results of moleculardating analyses laid the foundation for newbiogeographic hypotheses We discuss these in sect7 afterfirst comparing the results of different ancestralarea reconstruction methods in the remainder ofthis section
Ancestral area chronograms were reconstructed for43 fully terrestrial placental taxa from Springer et al[3] Chiropterans and fully aquatic forms wereexcluded because of their different modes of dispersal(ie flight swimming) and also because most fullyaquatic taxa inhabit areas (ie oceans) that are notcontained in the four-area scheme used in our analyses(see below) Ancestral area chronograms were recon-structed using a ML phylogram obtained withRAXML [65] molecular divergence dates estimatedwith BEAST [6] and ancestral areas reconstructedwith a variety of methods
Four areas (Africa Eurasia North America andSouth America) were recognized and two methodswere used to code areas for terminal taxa Firstareas were coded based on the geographical ranges ofextant species Second areas were coded based onthe geographical provenance of the oldest fossil foreach lineage The step matrix that was used in MACparsimony analysis is shown in figure 2 Given thatthe number of character states that are chosen for geo-graphical range subdivision is arbitrary it may beinstructive to compare the results of analyses withcoarser (eg Gondwana versus Laurasia) and finer(eg Europe and Asia instead of Eurasia) scales forarea coding although the analyses reported here areconfined to the four areas listed above
We reconstructed ancestral areas using ninemethods (i) MAC parsimony (ii) Fitch parsimonywith multiple binary characters (FP-MBC) (iii) Fitchparsimony with a single multi-state character (FP-SMC) (iv) DIVA with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas per node (v) DIVA with a maximumof two areas per node (DIVA-2) (vi) DEC with no con-straints on the maximum number of areas per node(vii) DEC with a maximum of two areas per node(DEC-2) (viii) stochastic mapping with multiplebinary characters (SM-MBC) and (ix) stochastic map-ping with a single multi-state character (SM-SMC)Ancestral area chronograms (MAC parsimony) basedon the geographical ranges of extant species and fossillineages are shown in figures 3 and 4 respectivelyTables 3 and 4 summarize the results of analyses withall nine methods
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Procavia
Loxodonta
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Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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Figure 4 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on the oldest fossil foreach lineage RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times and MAC par-simony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 Areas for the oldest fossil lineage are enumerated intable 2 and are colour-coded as follows Africa blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Nodes with
unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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palaeobiogeographicreconstructions
phylogenies
paleontologicaldata
chronograms
ancestral areachronograms
moleculardating
palaeogeographicreconstructions
geophysicsclimatologysedimentologystratigraphygeology
phylogenyreconstruction
ancestral areareconstruction
neontologicaldata
general area chronogram
Figure 1 A flowchart of the approach used for incorporating different types of data in conjunction with methods in phylogenyreconstruction molecular dating and ancestral area reconstruction for inferring ancestral area chronograms and palaeobiogeo-graphic history
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dating analyses and ancestral area reconstructions canbe performed in parallel or in series and thenintegrated to yield an ancestral area chronogram(figure 1)
3 MOLECULAR DATING ANALYSESMolecular clocks were introduced by Zuckerkandl ampPauling [7] but have fallen out of favour owing tothe prevalence of lineage-specific rate variation Theemergence of relaxed molecular clock methods haspromoted a resurgence of studies that have examinedboth interordinal and intraordinal divergence timesin Mammalia [8ndash23] Relaxed clock methods includepenalized likelihood approaches [2425] and BayesianMarkov chain Monte Carlo methods such as multidiv-time [26] BEAST [6] and mcmctree [27] It is useful tocompare both the results of different programs and theresults of the same program under different model andparameter settings [28ndash30]
An important difference between BEASTand multi-divtime is that BEAST allows rates to vary randomlyover lineages in a phylogeny whereas multidivtimeassumes autocorrelated rates In simulation studiesBEAST performed poorly when rates were autocorre-lated whereas multidivtime performed poorly whenthere was uncorrelated rate variation [28] Giventhese results Battistuzzi et al [28] recommended com-posite 95 credibility intervals
Relaxed clock methods allow for multiple calibra-tions including minimum and maximum constraintson individual nodes Multidivtime only allows forlsquohardrsquo constraints whereas BEAST and mcmctree pro-vide other options including lsquosoftrsquo constraints thatpermit specification of a given percentage (eg 95)of the normal distribution between the minimumand maximum with half of the remainder (eg25) allocated to each tail
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4 ANCESTRAL AREA RECONSTRUCTIONMethods for reconstructing historical biogeographyinclude dispersalism phylogenetic biogeography pan-biogeography parsimony analysis of endemicity andcladistic biogeography [31] Early reconstructions ofmammalian historical biogeography were based on dis-persalism and land bridges [232] and pre-date thegeneral acceptance of plate tectonic theory Sub-sequently cladistic biogeography emphasized vicarianceas the most important factor in diversification bydiscovering dichotomous area relationships (area clado-grams) from taxon cladograms In response to thisparadigm which paid little regard to dispersal andextinction Ronquist [33] proposed dispersalndashvicarianceanalysis (DIVA) for reconstructing patterns of historicalbiogeography [34] DIVA infers ancestral areas by mini-mizing the number of dispersal and extinction eventsRecent methods that build on Ronquistrsquos work includeBayes-DIVA [35] and dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis(DEC) [3637]
A fundamental issue in ancestral area reconstructionis area coding Areas are usually coded to include theentire geographical range of each species Other optionsinclude coding the entire area of the monophyletic cladethat is represented by the species or the geographicalarea of the oldest fossil belonging to each lineage Anadditional topic worthy of investigation is the problemof coding geographical areas for taxa from the geologicalpast versus the present given that areas as well as theirboundaries and physical relationships to each othercan fluctuate over time Parametric methods such asDEC which allow for changing dispersal probabilitiesover time provide a mechanism to accommodate theimpact of continental fragmentation and suturing on his-torical biogeography
Three general approaches are available for codingareas (box 1) whether for living species fossils orlarger monophyletic groups The first method is
Box 1 Methods for coding areas and analysing area-coded data matrices
I Area coding1 single multi-state character coding Individual character states are non-overlapping and correspond to a single areadisadvantages ranges are limited to a single area (character state) unless they are coded as polymorphic2 binary character coding with multiple characters Each binary character corresponds to the presenceabsence of a taxonin a single areaadvantages allows for the occupation of multiple areasdisadvantages ancestral areas may receive no state assignments3 string character coding (frac14polymorphism coding)advantages individual character states may include one or more areasdisadvantages the number of character states becomes intractable when there are too many individual areas
II Ancestral area reconstruction1 monomorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods are used in conjunction with area data that havebeen coded as a single multi-state charactera Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE)b stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP)advantages stochastic mapping allows for branch lengths and multiple treesdisadvantages methods in this category implicitly assume that different character states (areas) are homologous toeach other and attempt to find a single ancestral area (character state) at each node2 polymorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods allow for ancestral areas that encompass more thanone area and employ either binary character data for multiple characters or string character dataa Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE) with multiple binary charactersb stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP) with multiple binary charactersc dispersalndashvicariance (DIVA)d Bayes-DIVAe dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis (DEC)f minimum area change (MAC) parsimonyadvantages all methods in this category allow for reconstructions that include multiple areas per node Stochasticmapping and DEC incorporate branch lengths stochastic mapping and Bayes-DIVA allow for multiple treesdisadvantages methods that employ multiple binary characters can result in empty ancestral area reconstructionsFitch parsimony MAC parsimony and DIVA ignore branch length information DIVA Bayes-DIVA and DEC arebiased towards ancestral reconstructions that include numerous individual areas
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single character multi-state coding with non-overlap-ping character states The second method is binarycharacter coding with multiple characters whereeach character represents the presence or absence ofa taxon in a single area In contrast to the firstmethod this approach allows ancestral nodes toencompass more than one area Ancestral area recon-structions are simply the sum of the individual areareconstructions A disadvantage of this approach isthat ancestral areas may receive lsquono-statersquo assignmentswhich imply empty ancestral areas No-state assign-ments are an artefact of the character independenceassumption [38] Finally string character coding[37] allows individual character states to include oneor more geographical areas Specifically the geo-graphical range of a species is coded as a stringdenoting its presenceabsence in a set of individualareas Ree amp Smithrsquos [37] string character coding isequivalent to Maddison amp Maddisonrsquos [39] poly-morphism coding
Ancestral reconstruction methods can be dividedinto parsimony versus Bayesianlikelihood approaches[40] Only the latter takes advantage of branch lengthsAnother useful distinction is between methods thatreconstruct ancestral nodes as monomorphic characterstates versus those that allow for range expansion andcontraction
MP and ML methods employ discrete-state tran-sition models and reconstruct ancestral nodes asmonomorphic Monomorphic methods for character
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state reconstruction assume that different characterstates are homologous to each other as is the casefor characters that pass Pattersonrsquos [41] conjunctiontest which states that two structures that are foundin the same organism cannot be homologous How-ever this test is nonsensical when applied togeographical areas because the presence of a speciesin one area does not rule out its presence in anotherarea
Other ancestral range reconstruction methods havethe advantage of allowing for polymorphic ancestralstates and thereby accommodating range expansionand contraction (box 1) [40] Polymorphic reconstruc-tions can be achieved using (i) monomorphic methodswith multiple binary characters each of which codesfor the presenceabsence of a taxon in one area and(ii) polymorphic methods that allow ancestral nodesto include one or more areas
Fitch parsimony and stochastic mapping can beused to reconstruct ancestral nodes for multiplebinary characters and then summed over all characterreconstructions to obtain the complete set of areas foreach ancestral node One difficulty is ancestral nodeswith no-state assignments In these instances multipleinterpretations are possible including vicariance of anancestral area that was not included in the originalanalysis If there is geological evidence for formerlycontiguous areas this information may be incorpor-ated into ancillary characters to assist ancestral areareconstructions
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O A mdash 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 3 B 2 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 2 3 C 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 3 D 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 E 1 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 3 2 F 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 2 G 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 2 H 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 I 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 2 J 3 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 1 2 K 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 1 L 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 1 M 2 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 2 1 N 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 mdash 1 O 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 mdash
A = Africa B = Eurasia C = North America D = South America E = Africa + Eurasia F = Africa + North America G = Africa + South America H = Eurasia + North America I = Eurasia + South America
J = North America + South America
K = Africa + Eurasia + North America
L = Africa + Eurasia + South America
M = Africa + North America + South America
N = Eurasia + North America + South America
O = Africa + Eurasia + North America + South America
Figure 2 Example of a step matrix for minimum area change (MAC) parsimony MAC parsimony assigns equal cost to allgains and losses of an area For example a change in area from A (Africa) to G (Africa thorn South America) requires onestep (gain South America) whereas a change from A to H (Eurasia thornNorth America) requires three steps (Africa loss Eurasiagain North America gain) The step matrix is fully symmetrical
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In contrast to methods that were co-opted fromphylogenetics DIVA [33] and DEC [363742] weredeveloped explicitly for historical biogeographicreconstruction DIVA assigns no cost to widespreadancestral areas that are subdivided by vicariance butassigns a cost to dispersal and local extinctionevents DIVA ignores branch lengths DEC uses a con-tinuous time model for geographical range evolutionand employs string character coding to accommodatepolymorphic areas DEC permits range expansionthrough dispersal events and range contractionthrough local extinction events DEC also allowsareas of implausible distribution to be excludedsuch as those that are geographically discontinuous[43] DIVA and DEC are prone to reconstructingancestral areas that include too many individualareas especially towards the root of the tree Howeverboth programmes have options for limiting thenumber of ancestral areas
An additional approach that we introduce is mini-mum area change (MAC) parsimony which usespolymorphic character coding [39] and Sankoff optim-ization and can be implemented with MESQUITE [44]MAC parsimony requires a step matrix (figure 2) Incontrast to DIVA MAC parsimony assigns equal costto all gains and losses of an area whether through dis-persal local extinction or vicariance An advantage ofthis approach is that it should be less prone than DIVAto reconstructing ancestral areas that are too broadrelative to terminal taxa
Another recent approach that builds on earlier cla-distic biogeography methods is phylogenetic analysisof comparing trees (PACT) [45ndash47] Unlike earlier
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cladistic biogeography methods PACT explicitlyincorporates molecular dates into general areacladograms
5 ANCESTRAL AREA CHRONOGRAMS ANDPALAEOGEOGRAPHYAncestral area chronograms are similar to ancestral areacladograms but additionally incorporate temporal infor-mation into their framework Alternate approaches forreconstructing phylogeny estimating divergence timesand reconstructing ancestral areas may yield differentancestral area chronograms each of which may beinterpreted in the context of geology-based palaeogeogra-phical hypotheses (figure 1) Ancestral area chronogramsin conjunction with geology-based palaeogeographicalreconstructions provide a framework for proposingtesting and refining palaeobiogeographic hypothesesAncestral area chronograms when interpreted in thecontext of palaeogeographical hypothesis yield insightsinto dispersal vicariance and area extinctions all ofwhich are incorporated into palaeobiogeographichypotheses (figure 1)
Ancestral area chronograms are taxon-specific butancestral area chronograms for multiple taxa that co-occur in the same region can yield general area chron-ograms General area chronograms are similar togeneral area cladograms but include temporal infor-mation that is absent from general area cladogramsThe fundamental idea behind cladistic biogeographyis that broad patterns which are revealed through gen-eral area cladograms demand comprehensive causalexplanations However general area cladograms
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ignore temporal information and may result frompseudo-congruence when taxonomic groups with thesame area relationships have different divergencetimes and presumably different underlying causes[48] Temporal information is critical for discriminat-ing between groups that diversified during the sametime period and therefore may have experienced thesame causal events and groups that diversifiedduring different time periods and require differentcausal explanations [48]
Just as there may be multiple ancestral area chro-nograms for a taxonomic group there may also bemultiple palaeogeographical hypotheses regarding thehistory of connections of formerly connected land-masses For example the lsquopan-Gondwananrsquo andlsquoAfrica-firstrsquo hypotheses represent alternate scenariosfor the breakup of Gondwana [49] Both hypothesesagree that the initial rift was between the African com-ponent of West Gondwana (Africa South America)and the Indo-Madagascar component of EastGondwana although connections between Africa andIndo-Madagascar were maintained via South Amer-icandashAntarctica Subsequent to this initial rift the pan-Gondwanan hypothesis [50] postulates that three vicar-iant separations South America from Africa SouthAmerica from Antarctica and Antarctica from Indo-Madagascar all occurred during a narrow timewindow (100ndash90 Ma) The Africa-first hypothesis inturn suggests that Africa was the first Gondwanan con-tinent to become completely separated from otherGondwanan landmasses when it separated fromSouth America by approximately 100 Ma Indo-Mada-gascar separated from AntarcticandashAustralia atapproximately 130ndash110 Ma but maintained subaerialconnections with Antarctica via the Kerguelen Plateauand possibly the Gunnerus Ridge to the west well intothe Late Cretaceous (approx 80 Ma) The final separ-ation was between the Antarctica Peninsula and the tipof South America in the Eocene
Krause et al [49] compared Cretaceous vertebratefaunas from different Gondwanan landmasses and con-cluded that palaeontological data are most compatiblewith a modified version of the Africa-first hypothesisKrause et alrsquos [49] work also illustrates how biogeographichypotheses based on fossils can be compared withgeology-based palaeogeographical hypotheses in anarena that allows for reciprocal illumination Thus ances-tral and general area chronograms provide a frameworkfor evaluating competing geology-based palaeogeo-graphical reconstructions just as geology-basedpalaeogeographical reconstructions provide a frameworkfor evaluating alternate ancestral area chronograms(figure 1) Krause et al [49] noted that there is no apriori reason to assume that geological data trumppalaeontological data or vice versa insofar as each typeof data can be used to reveal large-scale biogeographicpatterns
6 PLACENTAL PHYLOGENY AND ACOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ANCESTRALAREA RECONSTRUCTION METHODSMost placental orders have first fossil occurrences andprobable origins in Laurasia but there are also orders
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with Gondwanan origins based on first fossil occur-rences in South America (Xenarthra) or Africa (mostafrotherian orders) Traditional morphologicalphylogenies [5152] have suggested close relationshipsbetween Laurasian and Gondwanan orders egEdentata (Xenarthra (Gondwanan) thorn Pholidota(Laurasian)) By contrast molecular phylogenies haverecovered three superordinal groups AfrotheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires [353ndash63] thatwere not recovered on morphological trees Thesethree groups plus Xenarthra comprise the four majorclades of placental mammals There is also robust mol-ecular support for Boreoeutheria (EuarchontogliresthornLaurasiatheria) [60ndash6264] This overhaul of placentalphylogeny in conjunction with the results of moleculardating analyses laid the foundation for newbiogeographic hypotheses We discuss these in sect7 afterfirst comparing the results of different ancestralarea reconstruction methods in the remainder ofthis section
Ancestral area chronograms were reconstructed for43 fully terrestrial placental taxa from Springer et al[3] Chiropterans and fully aquatic forms wereexcluded because of their different modes of dispersal(ie flight swimming) and also because most fullyaquatic taxa inhabit areas (ie oceans) that are notcontained in the four-area scheme used in our analyses(see below) Ancestral area chronograms were recon-structed using a ML phylogram obtained withRAXML [65] molecular divergence dates estimatedwith BEAST [6] and ancestral areas reconstructedwith a variety of methods
Four areas (Africa Eurasia North America andSouth America) were recognized and two methodswere used to code areas for terminal taxa Firstareas were coded based on the geographical ranges ofextant species Second areas were coded based onthe geographical provenance of the oldest fossil foreach lineage The step matrix that was used in MACparsimony analysis is shown in figure 2 Given thatthe number of character states that are chosen for geo-graphical range subdivision is arbitrary it may beinstructive to compare the results of analyses withcoarser (eg Gondwana versus Laurasia) and finer(eg Europe and Asia instead of Eurasia) scales forarea coding although the analyses reported here areconfined to the four areas listed above
We reconstructed ancestral areas using ninemethods (i) MAC parsimony (ii) Fitch parsimonywith multiple binary characters (FP-MBC) (iii) Fitchparsimony with a single multi-state character (FP-SMC) (iv) DIVA with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas per node (v) DIVA with a maximumof two areas per node (DIVA-2) (vi) DEC with no con-straints on the maximum number of areas per node(vii) DEC with a maximum of two areas per node(DEC-2) (viii) stochastic mapping with multiplebinary characters (SM-MBC) and (ix) stochastic map-ping with a single multi-state character (SM-SMC)Ancestral area chronograms (MAC parsimony) basedon the geographical ranges of extant species and fossillineages are shown in figures 3 and 4 respectivelyTables 3 and 4 summarize the results of analyses withall nine methods
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Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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Figure 4 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on the oldest fossil foreach lineage RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times and MAC par-simony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 Areas for the oldest fossil lineage are enumerated intable 2 and are colour-coded as follows Africa blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Nodes with
unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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)
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
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2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
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EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Box 1 Methods for coding areas and analysing area-coded data matrices
I Area coding1 single multi-state character coding Individual character states are non-overlapping and correspond to a single areadisadvantages ranges are limited to a single area (character state) unless they are coded as polymorphic2 binary character coding with multiple characters Each binary character corresponds to the presenceabsence of a taxonin a single areaadvantages allows for the occupation of multiple areasdisadvantages ancestral areas may receive no state assignments3 string character coding (frac14polymorphism coding)advantages individual character states may include one or more areasdisadvantages the number of character states becomes intractable when there are too many individual areas
II Ancestral area reconstruction1 monomorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods are used in conjunction with area data that havebeen coded as a single multi-state charactera Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE)b stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP)advantages stochastic mapping allows for branch lengths and multiple treesdisadvantages methods in this category implicitly assume that different character states (areas) are homologous toeach other and attempt to find a single ancestral area (character state) at each node2 polymorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods These methods allow for ancestral areas that encompass more thanone area and employ either binary character data for multiple characters or string character dataa Fitch parsimony (eg MACCLADE) with multiple binary charactersb stochastic mapping (eg SIMMAP) with multiple binary charactersc dispersalndashvicariance (DIVA)d Bayes-DIVAe dispersalndashextinction cladogenesis (DEC)f minimum area change (MAC) parsimonyadvantages all methods in this category allow for reconstructions that include multiple areas per node Stochasticmapping and DEC incorporate branch lengths stochastic mapping and Bayes-DIVA allow for multiple treesdisadvantages methods that employ multiple binary characters can result in empty ancestral area reconstructionsFitch parsimony MAC parsimony and DIVA ignore branch length information DIVA Bayes-DIVA and DEC arebiased towards ancestral reconstructions that include numerous individual areas
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single character multi-state coding with non-overlap-ping character states The second method is binarycharacter coding with multiple characters whereeach character represents the presence or absence ofa taxon in a single area In contrast to the firstmethod this approach allows ancestral nodes toencompass more than one area Ancestral area recon-structions are simply the sum of the individual areareconstructions A disadvantage of this approach isthat ancestral areas may receive lsquono-statersquo assignmentswhich imply empty ancestral areas No-state assign-ments are an artefact of the character independenceassumption [38] Finally string character coding[37] allows individual character states to include oneor more geographical areas Specifically the geo-graphical range of a species is coded as a stringdenoting its presenceabsence in a set of individualareas Ree amp Smithrsquos [37] string character coding isequivalent to Maddison amp Maddisonrsquos [39] poly-morphism coding
Ancestral reconstruction methods can be dividedinto parsimony versus Bayesianlikelihood approaches[40] Only the latter takes advantage of branch lengthsAnother useful distinction is between methods thatreconstruct ancestral nodes as monomorphic characterstates versus those that allow for range expansion andcontraction
MP and ML methods employ discrete-state tran-sition models and reconstruct ancestral nodes asmonomorphic Monomorphic methods for character
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state reconstruction assume that different characterstates are homologous to each other as is the casefor characters that pass Pattersonrsquos [41] conjunctiontest which states that two structures that are foundin the same organism cannot be homologous How-ever this test is nonsensical when applied togeographical areas because the presence of a speciesin one area does not rule out its presence in anotherarea
Other ancestral range reconstruction methods havethe advantage of allowing for polymorphic ancestralstates and thereby accommodating range expansionand contraction (box 1) [40] Polymorphic reconstruc-tions can be achieved using (i) monomorphic methodswith multiple binary characters each of which codesfor the presenceabsence of a taxon in one area and(ii) polymorphic methods that allow ancestral nodesto include one or more areas
Fitch parsimony and stochastic mapping can beused to reconstruct ancestral nodes for multiplebinary characters and then summed over all characterreconstructions to obtain the complete set of areas foreach ancestral node One difficulty is ancestral nodeswith no-state assignments In these instances multipleinterpretations are possible including vicariance of anancestral area that was not included in the originalanalysis If there is geological evidence for formerlycontiguous areas this information may be incorpor-ated into ancillary characters to assist ancestral areareconstructions
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O A mdash 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 3 B 2 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 2 3 C 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 3 D 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 E 1 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 3 2 F 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 2 G 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 2 H 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 I 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 2 J 3 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 1 2 K 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 1 L 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 1 M 2 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 2 1 N 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 mdash 1 O 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 mdash
A = Africa B = Eurasia C = North America D = South America E = Africa + Eurasia F = Africa + North America G = Africa + South America H = Eurasia + North America I = Eurasia + South America
J = North America + South America
K = Africa + Eurasia + North America
L = Africa + Eurasia + South America
M = Africa + North America + South America
N = Eurasia + North America + South America
O = Africa + Eurasia + North America + South America
Figure 2 Example of a step matrix for minimum area change (MAC) parsimony MAC parsimony assigns equal cost to allgains and losses of an area For example a change in area from A (Africa) to G (Africa thorn South America) requires onestep (gain South America) whereas a change from A to H (Eurasia thornNorth America) requires three steps (Africa loss Eurasiagain North America gain) The step matrix is fully symmetrical
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In contrast to methods that were co-opted fromphylogenetics DIVA [33] and DEC [363742] weredeveloped explicitly for historical biogeographicreconstruction DIVA assigns no cost to widespreadancestral areas that are subdivided by vicariance butassigns a cost to dispersal and local extinctionevents DIVA ignores branch lengths DEC uses a con-tinuous time model for geographical range evolutionand employs string character coding to accommodatepolymorphic areas DEC permits range expansionthrough dispersal events and range contractionthrough local extinction events DEC also allowsareas of implausible distribution to be excludedsuch as those that are geographically discontinuous[43] DIVA and DEC are prone to reconstructingancestral areas that include too many individualareas especially towards the root of the tree Howeverboth programmes have options for limiting thenumber of ancestral areas
An additional approach that we introduce is mini-mum area change (MAC) parsimony which usespolymorphic character coding [39] and Sankoff optim-ization and can be implemented with MESQUITE [44]MAC parsimony requires a step matrix (figure 2) Incontrast to DIVA MAC parsimony assigns equal costto all gains and losses of an area whether through dis-persal local extinction or vicariance An advantage ofthis approach is that it should be less prone than DIVAto reconstructing ancestral areas that are too broadrelative to terminal taxa
Another recent approach that builds on earlier cla-distic biogeography methods is phylogenetic analysisof comparing trees (PACT) [45ndash47] Unlike earlier
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cladistic biogeography methods PACT explicitlyincorporates molecular dates into general areacladograms
5 ANCESTRAL AREA CHRONOGRAMS ANDPALAEOGEOGRAPHYAncestral area chronograms are similar to ancestral areacladograms but additionally incorporate temporal infor-mation into their framework Alternate approaches forreconstructing phylogeny estimating divergence timesand reconstructing ancestral areas may yield differentancestral area chronograms each of which may beinterpreted in the context of geology-based palaeogeogra-phical hypotheses (figure 1) Ancestral area chronogramsin conjunction with geology-based palaeogeographicalreconstructions provide a framework for proposingtesting and refining palaeobiogeographic hypothesesAncestral area chronograms when interpreted in thecontext of palaeogeographical hypothesis yield insightsinto dispersal vicariance and area extinctions all ofwhich are incorporated into palaeobiogeographichypotheses (figure 1)
Ancestral area chronograms are taxon-specific butancestral area chronograms for multiple taxa that co-occur in the same region can yield general area chron-ograms General area chronograms are similar togeneral area cladograms but include temporal infor-mation that is absent from general area cladogramsThe fundamental idea behind cladistic biogeographyis that broad patterns which are revealed through gen-eral area cladograms demand comprehensive causalexplanations However general area cladograms
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ignore temporal information and may result frompseudo-congruence when taxonomic groups with thesame area relationships have different divergencetimes and presumably different underlying causes[48] Temporal information is critical for discriminat-ing between groups that diversified during the sametime period and therefore may have experienced thesame causal events and groups that diversifiedduring different time periods and require differentcausal explanations [48]
Just as there may be multiple ancestral area chro-nograms for a taxonomic group there may also bemultiple palaeogeographical hypotheses regarding thehistory of connections of formerly connected land-masses For example the lsquopan-Gondwananrsquo andlsquoAfrica-firstrsquo hypotheses represent alternate scenariosfor the breakup of Gondwana [49] Both hypothesesagree that the initial rift was between the African com-ponent of West Gondwana (Africa South America)and the Indo-Madagascar component of EastGondwana although connections between Africa andIndo-Madagascar were maintained via South Amer-icandashAntarctica Subsequent to this initial rift the pan-Gondwanan hypothesis [50] postulates that three vicar-iant separations South America from Africa SouthAmerica from Antarctica and Antarctica from Indo-Madagascar all occurred during a narrow timewindow (100ndash90 Ma) The Africa-first hypothesis inturn suggests that Africa was the first Gondwanan con-tinent to become completely separated from otherGondwanan landmasses when it separated fromSouth America by approximately 100 Ma Indo-Mada-gascar separated from AntarcticandashAustralia atapproximately 130ndash110 Ma but maintained subaerialconnections with Antarctica via the Kerguelen Plateauand possibly the Gunnerus Ridge to the west well intothe Late Cretaceous (approx 80 Ma) The final separ-ation was between the Antarctica Peninsula and the tipof South America in the Eocene
Krause et al [49] compared Cretaceous vertebratefaunas from different Gondwanan landmasses and con-cluded that palaeontological data are most compatiblewith a modified version of the Africa-first hypothesisKrause et alrsquos [49] work also illustrates how biogeographichypotheses based on fossils can be compared withgeology-based palaeogeographical hypotheses in anarena that allows for reciprocal illumination Thus ances-tral and general area chronograms provide a frameworkfor evaluating competing geology-based palaeogeo-graphical reconstructions just as geology-basedpalaeogeographical reconstructions provide a frameworkfor evaluating alternate ancestral area chronograms(figure 1) Krause et al [49] noted that there is no apriori reason to assume that geological data trumppalaeontological data or vice versa insofar as each typeof data can be used to reveal large-scale biogeographicpatterns
6 PLACENTAL PHYLOGENY AND ACOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ANCESTRALAREA RECONSTRUCTION METHODSMost placental orders have first fossil occurrences andprobable origins in Laurasia but there are also orders
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with Gondwanan origins based on first fossil occur-rences in South America (Xenarthra) or Africa (mostafrotherian orders) Traditional morphologicalphylogenies [5152] have suggested close relationshipsbetween Laurasian and Gondwanan orders egEdentata (Xenarthra (Gondwanan) thorn Pholidota(Laurasian)) By contrast molecular phylogenies haverecovered three superordinal groups AfrotheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires [353ndash63] thatwere not recovered on morphological trees Thesethree groups plus Xenarthra comprise the four majorclades of placental mammals There is also robust mol-ecular support for Boreoeutheria (EuarchontogliresthornLaurasiatheria) [60ndash6264] This overhaul of placentalphylogeny in conjunction with the results of moleculardating analyses laid the foundation for newbiogeographic hypotheses We discuss these in sect7 afterfirst comparing the results of different ancestralarea reconstruction methods in the remainder ofthis section
Ancestral area chronograms were reconstructed for43 fully terrestrial placental taxa from Springer et al[3] Chiropterans and fully aquatic forms wereexcluded because of their different modes of dispersal(ie flight swimming) and also because most fullyaquatic taxa inhabit areas (ie oceans) that are notcontained in the four-area scheme used in our analyses(see below) Ancestral area chronograms were recon-structed using a ML phylogram obtained withRAXML [65] molecular divergence dates estimatedwith BEAST [6] and ancestral areas reconstructedwith a variety of methods
Four areas (Africa Eurasia North America andSouth America) were recognized and two methodswere used to code areas for terminal taxa Firstareas were coded based on the geographical ranges ofextant species Second areas were coded based onthe geographical provenance of the oldest fossil foreach lineage The step matrix that was used in MACparsimony analysis is shown in figure 2 Given thatthe number of character states that are chosen for geo-graphical range subdivision is arbitrary it may beinstructive to compare the results of analyses withcoarser (eg Gondwana versus Laurasia) and finer(eg Europe and Asia instead of Eurasia) scales forarea coding although the analyses reported here areconfined to the four areas listed above
We reconstructed ancestral areas using ninemethods (i) MAC parsimony (ii) Fitch parsimonywith multiple binary characters (FP-MBC) (iii) Fitchparsimony with a single multi-state character (FP-SMC) (iv) DIVA with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas per node (v) DIVA with a maximumof two areas per node (DIVA-2) (vi) DEC with no con-straints on the maximum number of areas per node(vii) DEC with a maximum of two areas per node(DEC-2) (viii) stochastic mapping with multiplebinary characters (SM-MBC) and (ix) stochastic map-ping with a single multi-state character (SM-SMC)Ancestral area chronograms (MAC parsimony) basedon the geographical ranges of extant species and fossillineages are shown in figures 3 and 4 respectivelyTables 3 and 4 summarize the results of analyses withall nine methods
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Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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Figure 4 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on the oldest fossil foreach lineage RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times and MAC par-simony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 Areas for the oldest fossil lineage are enumerated intable 2 and are colour-coded as follows Africa blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Nodes with
unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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tinued
)
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O A mdash 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 3 B 2 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 2 3 C 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 3 D 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 3 E 1 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 3 2 F 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 2 G 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 2 H 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 mdash 2 2 1 3 3 1 2 I 3 1 3 1 2 4 2 2 mdash 2 3 1 3 1 2 J 3 3 1 1 4 2 2 2 2 mdash 3 3 1 1 2 K 2 2 2 4 1 1 3 1 3 3 mdash 2 2 2 1 L 2 2 4 2 1 3 1 3 1 3 2 mdash 2 2 1 M 2 4 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 mdash 2 1 N 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 mdash 1 O 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 mdash
A = Africa B = Eurasia C = North America D = South America E = Africa + Eurasia F = Africa + North America G = Africa + South America H = Eurasia + North America I = Eurasia + South America
J = North America + South America
K = Africa + Eurasia + North America
L = Africa + Eurasia + South America
M = Africa + North America + South America
N = Eurasia + North America + South America
O = Africa + Eurasia + North America + South America
Figure 2 Example of a step matrix for minimum area change (MAC) parsimony MAC parsimony assigns equal cost to allgains and losses of an area For example a change in area from A (Africa) to G (Africa thorn South America) requires onestep (gain South America) whereas a change from A to H (Eurasia thornNorth America) requires three steps (Africa loss Eurasiagain North America gain) The step matrix is fully symmetrical
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In contrast to methods that were co-opted fromphylogenetics DIVA [33] and DEC [363742] weredeveloped explicitly for historical biogeographicreconstruction DIVA assigns no cost to widespreadancestral areas that are subdivided by vicariance butassigns a cost to dispersal and local extinctionevents DIVA ignores branch lengths DEC uses a con-tinuous time model for geographical range evolutionand employs string character coding to accommodatepolymorphic areas DEC permits range expansionthrough dispersal events and range contractionthrough local extinction events DEC also allowsareas of implausible distribution to be excludedsuch as those that are geographically discontinuous[43] DIVA and DEC are prone to reconstructingancestral areas that include too many individualareas especially towards the root of the tree Howeverboth programmes have options for limiting thenumber of ancestral areas
An additional approach that we introduce is mini-mum area change (MAC) parsimony which usespolymorphic character coding [39] and Sankoff optim-ization and can be implemented with MESQUITE [44]MAC parsimony requires a step matrix (figure 2) Incontrast to DIVA MAC parsimony assigns equal costto all gains and losses of an area whether through dis-persal local extinction or vicariance An advantage ofthis approach is that it should be less prone than DIVAto reconstructing ancestral areas that are too broadrelative to terminal taxa
Another recent approach that builds on earlier cla-distic biogeography methods is phylogenetic analysisof comparing trees (PACT) [45ndash47] Unlike earlier
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cladistic biogeography methods PACT explicitlyincorporates molecular dates into general areacladograms
5 ANCESTRAL AREA CHRONOGRAMS ANDPALAEOGEOGRAPHYAncestral area chronograms are similar to ancestral areacladograms but additionally incorporate temporal infor-mation into their framework Alternate approaches forreconstructing phylogeny estimating divergence timesand reconstructing ancestral areas may yield differentancestral area chronograms each of which may beinterpreted in the context of geology-based palaeogeogra-phical hypotheses (figure 1) Ancestral area chronogramsin conjunction with geology-based palaeogeographicalreconstructions provide a framework for proposingtesting and refining palaeobiogeographic hypothesesAncestral area chronograms when interpreted in thecontext of palaeogeographical hypothesis yield insightsinto dispersal vicariance and area extinctions all ofwhich are incorporated into palaeobiogeographichypotheses (figure 1)
Ancestral area chronograms are taxon-specific butancestral area chronograms for multiple taxa that co-occur in the same region can yield general area chron-ograms General area chronograms are similar togeneral area cladograms but include temporal infor-mation that is absent from general area cladogramsThe fundamental idea behind cladistic biogeographyis that broad patterns which are revealed through gen-eral area cladograms demand comprehensive causalexplanations However general area cladograms
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ignore temporal information and may result frompseudo-congruence when taxonomic groups with thesame area relationships have different divergencetimes and presumably different underlying causes[48] Temporal information is critical for discriminat-ing between groups that diversified during the sametime period and therefore may have experienced thesame causal events and groups that diversifiedduring different time periods and require differentcausal explanations [48]
Just as there may be multiple ancestral area chro-nograms for a taxonomic group there may also bemultiple palaeogeographical hypotheses regarding thehistory of connections of formerly connected land-masses For example the lsquopan-Gondwananrsquo andlsquoAfrica-firstrsquo hypotheses represent alternate scenariosfor the breakup of Gondwana [49] Both hypothesesagree that the initial rift was between the African com-ponent of West Gondwana (Africa South America)and the Indo-Madagascar component of EastGondwana although connections between Africa andIndo-Madagascar were maintained via South Amer-icandashAntarctica Subsequent to this initial rift the pan-Gondwanan hypothesis [50] postulates that three vicar-iant separations South America from Africa SouthAmerica from Antarctica and Antarctica from Indo-Madagascar all occurred during a narrow timewindow (100ndash90 Ma) The Africa-first hypothesis inturn suggests that Africa was the first Gondwanan con-tinent to become completely separated from otherGondwanan landmasses when it separated fromSouth America by approximately 100 Ma Indo-Mada-gascar separated from AntarcticandashAustralia atapproximately 130ndash110 Ma but maintained subaerialconnections with Antarctica via the Kerguelen Plateauand possibly the Gunnerus Ridge to the west well intothe Late Cretaceous (approx 80 Ma) The final separ-ation was between the Antarctica Peninsula and the tipof South America in the Eocene
Krause et al [49] compared Cretaceous vertebratefaunas from different Gondwanan landmasses and con-cluded that palaeontological data are most compatiblewith a modified version of the Africa-first hypothesisKrause et alrsquos [49] work also illustrates how biogeographichypotheses based on fossils can be compared withgeology-based palaeogeographical hypotheses in anarena that allows for reciprocal illumination Thus ances-tral and general area chronograms provide a frameworkfor evaluating competing geology-based palaeogeo-graphical reconstructions just as geology-basedpalaeogeographical reconstructions provide a frameworkfor evaluating alternate ancestral area chronograms(figure 1) Krause et al [49] noted that there is no apriori reason to assume that geological data trumppalaeontological data or vice versa insofar as each typeof data can be used to reveal large-scale biogeographicpatterns
6 PLACENTAL PHYLOGENY AND ACOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ANCESTRALAREA RECONSTRUCTION METHODSMost placental orders have first fossil occurrences andprobable origins in Laurasia but there are also orders
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with Gondwanan origins based on first fossil occur-rences in South America (Xenarthra) or Africa (mostafrotherian orders) Traditional morphologicalphylogenies [5152] have suggested close relationshipsbetween Laurasian and Gondwanan orders egEdentata (Xenarthra (Gondwanan) thorn Pholidota(Laurasian)) By contrast molecular phylogenies haverecovered three superordinal groups AfrotheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires [353ndash63] thatwere not recovered on morphological trees Thesethree groups plus Xenarthra comprise the four majorclades of placental mammals There is also robust mol-ecular support for Boreoeutheria (EuarchontogliresthornLaurasiatheria) [60ndash6264] This overhaul of placentalphylogeny in conjunction with the results of moleculardating analyses laid the foundation for newbiogeographic hypotheses We discuss these in sect7 afterfirst comparing the results of different ancestralarea reconstruction methods in the remainder ofthis section
Ancestral area chronograms were reconstructed for43 fully terrestrial placental taxa from Springer et al[3] Chiropterans and fully aquatic forms wereexcluded because of their different modes of dispersal(ie flight swimming) and also because most fullyaquatic taxa inhabit areas (ie oceans) that are notcontained in the four-area scheme used in our analyses(see below) Ancestral area chronograms were recon-structed using a ML phylogram obtained withRAXML [65] molecular divergence dates estimatedwith BEAST [6] and ancestral areas reconstructedwith a variety of methods
Four areas (Africa Eurasia North America andSouth America) were recognized and two methodswere used to code areas for terminal taxa Firstareas were coded based on the geographical ranges ofextant species Second areas were coded based onthe geographical provenance of the oldest fossil foreach lineage The step matrix that was used in MACparsimony analysis is shown in figure 2 Given thatthe number of character states that are chosen for geo-graphical range subdivision is arbitrary it may beinstructive to compare the results of analyses withcoarser (eg Gondwana versus Laurasia) and finer(eg Europe and Asia instead of Eurasia) scales forarea coding although the analyses reported here areconfined to the four areas listed above
We reconstructed ancestral areas using ninemethods (i) MAC parsimony (ii) Fitch parsimonywith multiple binary characters (FP-MBC) (iii) Fitchparsimony with a single multi-state character (FP-SMC) (iv) DIVA with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas per node (v) DIVA with a maximumof two areas per node (DIVA-2) (vi) DEC with no con-straints on the maximum number of areas per node(vii) DEC with a maximum of two areas per node(DEC-2) (viii) stochastic mapping with multiplebinary characters (SM-MBC) and (ix) stochastic map-ping with a single multi-state character (SM-SMC)Ancestral area chronograms (MAC parsimony) basedon the geographical ranges of extant species and fossillineages are shown in figures 3 and 4 respectivelyTables 3 and 4 summarize the results of analyses withall nine methods
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Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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Figure 4 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on the oldest fossil foreach lineage RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times and MAC par-simony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 Areas for the oldest fossil lineage are enumerated intable 2 and are colour-coded as follows Africa blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Nodes with
unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
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2
3
4
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8
9
10
11
1213
14
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EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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ignore temporal information and may result frompseudo-congruence when taxonomic groups with thesame area relationships have different divergencetimes and presumably different underlying causes[48] Temporal information is critical for discriminat-ing between groups that diversified during the sametime period and therefore may have experienced thesame causal events and groups that diversifiedduring different time periods and require differentcausal explanations [48]
Just as there may be multiple ancestral area chro-nograms for a taxonomic group there may also bemultiple palaeogeographical hypotheses regarding thehistory of connections of formerly connected land-masses For example the lsquopan-Gondwananrsquo andlsquoAfrica-firstrsquo hypotheses represent alternate scenariosfor the breakup of Gondwana [49] Both hypothesesagree that the initial rift was between the African com-ponent of West Gondwana (Africa South America)and the Indo-Madagascar component of EastGondwana although connections between Africa andIndo-Madagascar were maintained via South Amer-icandashAntarctica Subsequent to this initial rift the pan-Gondwanan hypothesis [50] postulates that three vicar-iant separations South America from Africa SouthAmerica from Antarctica and Antarctica from Indo-Madagascar all occurred during a narrow timewindow (100ndash90 Ma) The Africa-first hypothesis inturn suggests that Africa was the first Gondwanan con-tinent to become completely separated from otherGondwanan landmasses when it separated fromSouth America by approximately 100 Ma Indo-Mada-gascar separated from AntarcticandashAustralia atapproximately 130ndash110 Ma but maintained subaerialconnections with Antarctica via the Kerguelen Plateauand possibly the Gunnerus Ridge to the west well intothe Late Cretaceous (approx 80 Ma) The final separ-ation was between the Antarctica Peninsula and the tipof South America in the Eocene
Krause et al [49] compared Cretaceous vertebratefaunas from different Gondwanan landmasses and con-cluded that palaeontological data are most compatiblewith a modified version of the Africa-first hypothesisKrause et alrsquos [49] work also illustrates how biogeographichypotheses based on fossils can be compared withgeology-based palaeogeographical hypotheses in anarena that allows for reciprocal illumination Thus ances-tral and general area chronograms provide a frameworkfor evaluating competing geology-based palaeogeo-graphical reconstructions just as geology-basedpalaeogeographical reconstructions provide a frameworkfor evaluating alternate ancestral area chronograms(figure 1) Krause et al [49] noted that there is no apriori reason to assume that geological data trumppalaeontological data or vice versa insofar as each typeof data can be used to reveal large-scale biogeographicpatterns
6 PLACENTAL PHYLOGENY AND ACOMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ANCESTRALAREA RECONSTRUCTION METHODSMost placental orders have first fossil occurrences andprobable origins in Laurasia but there are also orders
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with Gondwanan origins based on first fossil occur-rences in South America (Xenarthra) or Africa (mostafrotherian orders) Traditional morphologicalphylogenies [5152] have suggested close relationshipsbetween Laurasian and Gondwanan orders egEdentata (Xenarthra (Gondwanan) thorn Pholidota(Laurasian)) By contrast molecular phylogenies haverecovered three superordinal groups AfrotheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires [353ndash63] thatwere not recovered on morphological trees Thesethree groups plus Xenarthra comprise the four majorclades of placental mammals There is also robust mol-ecular support for Boreoeutheria (EuarchontogliresthornLaurasiatheria) [60ndash6264] This overhaul of placentalphylogeny in conjunction with the results of moleculardating analyses laid the foundation for newbiogeographic hypotheses We discuss these in sect7 afterfirst comparing the results of different ancestralarea reconstruction methods in the remainder ofthis section
Ancestral area chronograms were reconstructed for43 fully terrestrial placental taxa from Springer et al[3] Chiropterans and fully aquatic forms wereexcluded because of their different modes of dispersal(ie flight swimming) and also because most fullyaquatic taxa inhabit areas (ie oceans) that are notcontained in the four-area scheme used in our analyses(see below) Ancestral area chronograms were recon-structed using a ML phylogram obtained withRAXML [65] molecular divergence dates estimatedwith BEAST [6] and ancestral areas reconstructedwith a variety of methods
Four areas (Africa Eurasia North America andSouth America) were recognized and two methodswere used to code areas for terminal taxa Firstareas were coded based on the geographical ranges ofextant species Second areas were coded based onthe geographical provenance of the oldest fossil foreach lineage The step matrix that was used in MACparsimony analysis is shown in figure 2 Given thatthe number of character states that are chosen for geo-graphical range subdivision is arbitrary it may beinstructive to compare the results of analyses withcoarser (eg Gondwana versus Laurasia) and finer(eg Europe and Asia instead of Eurasia) scales forarea coding although the analyses reported here areconfined to the four areas listed above
We reconstructed ancestral areas using ninemethods (i) MAC parsimony (ii) Fitch parsimonywith multiple binary characters (FP-MBC) (iii) Fitchparsimony with a single multi-state character (FP-SMC) (iv) DIVA with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas per node (v) DIVA with a maximumof two areas per node (DIVA-2) (vi) DEC with no con-straints on the maximum number of areas per node(vii) DEC with a maximum of two areas per node(DEC-2) (viii) stochastic mapping with multiplebinary characters (SM-MBC) and (ix) stochastic map-ping with a single multi-state character (SM-SMC)Ancestral area chronograms (MAC parsimony) basedon the geographical ranges of extant species and fossillineages are shown in figures 3 and 4 respectivelyTables 3 and 4 summarize the results of analyses withall nine methods
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Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Choloepus
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Chaetophractus
Erinaceus
Talpa
Sorex
Echinops
Amblysomus
Procavia
Loxodonta
MacroscelidesElephantulus
Orycteropus
Tamias
Muscardinus
Mus
Rattus
PedetesHystrix
Castor
Dipodomys
CaviaHydrochaeris
Erethizon
SylvilagusOchotona
Cynocephalus
TupaiaLemur
Homo
Tarsius
Hippopotamus
Lama
Tragelaphus
Sus
Equus
Ceratotherium
TapirusFelis
Canis
Manis
Africa
South America
Eurasia
North America
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Figure 3 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on extant ranges forterminal taxa RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times MAC parsi-mony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 We employed soft constraints (nodes 3 8 10 16 19
21 32 34 36 38 41) that followed a normal distribution with 95 of the normal distribution between the specified mini-mum and maximum constraints (table 1) Areas for extant taxa are enumerated in table 2 and are colour-coded as followsAfrica blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Multi-coloured names denote taxa that occur inmore than one area (table 2) Nodes with unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single colouredcircle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions are shown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to
a different reconstruction
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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MyrmecophagaEuphractus
Chaetophractus
Erinaceus
Talpa
Sorex
Echinops
Amblysomus
Procavia
Loxodonta
MacroscelidesElephantulus
Orycteropus
Tamias
Muscardinus
Mus
Rattus
PedetesHystrix
Castor
Dipodomys
CaviaHydrochaeris
Erethizon
SylvilagusOchotona
Cynocephalus
TupaiaLemur
Homo
Tarsius
Hippopotamus
Lama
Tragelaphus
Sus
Equus
Ceratotherium
TapirusFelis
Canis
Manis
Africa
South America
Eurasia
North America
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Figure 4 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on the oldest fossil foreach lineage RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times and MAC par-simony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 Areas for the oldest fossil lineage are enumerated intable 2 and are colour-coded as follows Africa blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Nodes with
unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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185 Springer M S Westerman M Kavanagh J R BurkA Woodburne M O Kao D amp Krajewski C 1998The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the
phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito delmonte and marsupial mole Proc R Soc Lond B 2652381ndash2386 (doi101098rspb19980587)
186 Nilsson M A Churakov G Sommer M Tran NV Zemann A Brosius J amp Schmitz J 2010 Tracking
marsupial evolution using archaic genomic retroposoninsertions PLoS Biol 8 e1000436 (doi101371jour-nalpbio1000436)
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188 Rowe T Rich T H VickersndashRich P Springer MS amp Woodburne M O 2008 The oldest platypusand its bearing on divergence timing of the platypusand echidna clades Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1051238ndash1242 (doi101073pnas0706385105)
189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
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(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
192 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2001Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals Nature 409
53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
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194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Table 1 Fossil constraints Minimum ages are based on the age of the oldest unequivocal fossils belonging to the clade
Maximum ages are based on the maximum of stratigraphic bounding [66] phylogenetic bracketing [6768] and phylogeneticuncertainty Stratigraphic bounding encompassed two successive underlying fossil-bearing deposits that did not contain anyfossils from the lineage of interest phylogenetic bracketing encompassed the age of the oldest fossils that were up to twonodes below the divergence event and phylogenetic bracketing allowed for the possibility that taxa of uncertain phylogeneticaffinities belong to the crown clade first outgroup or second outgroup Dates used in stratigraphic bounding are from
Gradstein et al [69] We recognized the following chronological units in succession from youngest to oldest PleistocenePliocene Late Miocene Middle Miocene Early Miocene Late Oligocene Early Oligocene Late Eocene Middle EoceneEarly Eocene Late Palaeocene Middle Palaeocene Early Palaeocene Maastrichtian and Campanian
node numbera
fossil constraints (Ma)
oldest fossil for minimum reference(s)minimum maximum
3 556 712 Eritherium [70]8 585 712 Riostegotherium [6671]
10 338 655 Antarctic specimenb [7273]16 611 842 Adunator [74]19 371 658 Hesperocyon gregarious [75ndash77]21 555 611 Hyracotherium [78]
32 484 611 leporid tarsals [79]34 484 611 Eogliravus [80]36 338 56 Gaudeamus [8182]38 118 34 Prodolichotis [83]41 524 611 Mattimys [84]
aNode numbers refer to figures 3 and 4bThe Eocene Antarctic specimen is an ungual phalanx that Carlini et al [72] identified as a megatheroid sloth Marenssi et al [85] revisedthe identification of the phalanx to include either Tardigrada (sloths) or Vermilingua (anteaters) Subsequently Vizcaıno amp Scillato-Yane[73] described a fragmentary tooth from the Eocene of Antarctica and referred this tooth to Tardigrada but MacPhee amp Reguero [86]reinterpreted this tooth fragment as Mammalia incertae sedis based on histological evidence
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Ambiguous ancestral area reconstructions were aproblem for all methods and the number of nodeswith equivocal reconstructions ranged from four(SM-SMC with extant coding) to 26 (DEC-2 withextant coding) For some methods the number ofambiguous nodes was higher with extant coding thanwith fossil coding (FP-MBC FP-SMC MAC parsi-mony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2) but in othercases this pattern was reversed (SM-MBC SM-SMC) Ancestral areas for Placentalia Exafroplacenta-lia (frac14Boreoeutheria thorn Xenarthra) and several nodeswithin Rodentia were reconstructed as ambiguous bynearly all methods Other nodes were consistentlyreconstructed with unambiguous ancestral areasincluding clades with ancestral areas in Africa(Afrotheria and its internal nodes) Eurasia (Euarch-onta Paraprimates [frac14Dermoptera thorn Scandentia]Muridae) North America (Erinaceidae thorn Soricidae)and South America (Xenarthra and its internalnodes Cavioidea) Most analyses reconstructedEurasia as the ancestral area for BoreoeutheriaLaurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires This finding isdiscussed below
The importance of fossils is illustrated by recon-structions for Lagomorpha (tables 3 and 4) Allmethods returned North America as the ancestralarea when extant taxa were used for area coding butidentified Eurasia with fossil coding
DIVA and DEC analyses reconstructed more nodeswith multiple areas than did the other methodsAnalyses with DEC reconstructed 17ndash20 nodes withtwo or more areas and four to six nodes with threeor more areas DIVA analyses resulted in 15ndash18
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nodes with at least two areas and five to six nodeswith three or more areas None of the other methodsreconstructed ancestral nodes to include three ormore areas in a single reconstruction although threeor four areas were sometimes represented by thefull complement of alternate reconstructions for agiven node
FP-MBC returned nine empty nodes with extantcoding and five empty areas with fossil coding SM-MBC with extant coding resulted in three or fourempty nodes with extant coding and four emptynodes with extinct coding (table 5)
7 PLACENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHYAfrotheria (Afrosoricida Hyracoidea MacroscelideaProboscidea Sirenia Tubulidentata) was the first ofthe new superordinal groups to receive robust molecu-lar support [535556] With the exception of Sireniaall afrotherian orders have first fossil occurrences inAfrica and two orders (Macroscelidea Afrosoricida)have evolutionary histories that are restricted to theAfro-Malagasy region Springer et al [53] suggestedthat interordinal separation of afrotherian orders com-menced during a window of isolation that began in theCretaceous after Africa separated from South Amer-ica and lasted until the early Cenozoic when Africadocked with Europe Consistent with this scenarioAfrica was unambiguously reconstructed as the ances-tral area for Afrotheria (figures 3 and 4) Thishypothesis contrasts with traditional views whereinthe African mammal fauna arrived from the northincluding a condylarth stock that arrived in Africa
Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
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restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
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with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Table 2 Geographical area of extant taxa and oldest fossils used in ancestral area reconstruction
taxona area of extant species area of oldest fossilb
Choloepus didactylus SA SA Megalonychidae Miocene [87]Tamandua tetradactyla SA SA Tamandua Pleistocene [87]
Myrmecophaga tridactyla SA SA Neotamandua Miocene [8788]Euphractus sexcinctus SA SA Zaedyus Pliocene [8789]Chaetophractus villosus SA SA Chaetophractus Pliocene [90]Erinaceus europaeus Eurasia NA Adunator Palaeocene [74]Talpa altaica Eurasia Eurasia Eotalpa Eocene [91]
Sorex araneus Eurasia NA Domnina Eocene [92]Echinops telfairi Africa Africa Widanelfarasia Eocene [93]Amblysomus hottentotus Africa Africa Eochrysochloris Oligocene [93]Procavia capensis Africa Africa Seggeurius Eocene [94]
Loxodonta africana Africa Africa Eritherium Palaeocene [70]Macroscelides proboscideus Africa Africa Macroscelides Pliocene [95]Elephantulus rufescens Africa Africa Elephantulus Pliocene [95]Orycteropus afer Africa Africa Orycteropus Miocene [96]Tamias striatus NA NA Spurimus Eocene [97]
Muscardinus avellanarius Eurasia Eurasia Eogliravus Eocene [80]Mus musculus Eurasia Eurasia Progonomys Miocene [74]Rattus norvegicus Eurasia Eurasia Karnimata Miocene [74]Pedetes capensis Africa Africa Pondaungimys Eocene [98]Hystrix brachyurus Eurasia Africa Gaudeamus Eocene [81]
Castor canadensis NA NA Mattimys Eocene [84]Dipodomys merriami NA NA Proheteromys Oligocene [99]Cavia porcellus SA SA Prodolichotis Miocene [83100]Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris SA SA Cardiatherium Miocene [101]Erethizon dorsatum NA SA Eopululo Eocene [102]
Sylvilagus floridanus NA SA Eurasia tarsal elements Eocene [79]Ochotona princeps NA Eurasia Sinolagomys Oligocene [103104]Cynocephalus variegatus Eurasia Eurasia Dermotherium Eocene [105]Tupaia minor Eurasia Eurasia Eodendrogale Eocene [106]Lemur catta Africa Africa Pachylemur Quaternary [107]
Homo sapiens Eurasia NA SA Africa Eurasia Anthrasimias Palaeocene [108]Tarsius syrichta Eurasia Eurasia Tarsius Eocene [109]Hippopotamus amphibius Africa Africa Morotochoerus Miocene [110]Lama glama SA NA Poebrodon Eocene [111]
Tragelaphus eurycerus Africa Eurasia Archaeomeryx Eocene [112]Sus scrofa Eurasia Africa Eurasia Eocenchoerus Eocene [113]Equus caballus Eurasia Eurasia NA Hyracotherium Eocene [78114115]Ceratotherium simum Africa NA Hyracodontidae Eocene [116]Tapirus indicus Eurasia NA Helaletes Eocene [117]
Felis catus Africa Eurasia Stenoplesictis Eocene [118119]Canis familiaris Eurasia NA Hesperocyon Eocene [120]Manis pentadactyla Eurasia Eurasia Eomanis Eocene [121]
aIn cases of chimeric taxa we used the most common species from Springer et alrsquos [3] concatenated supermatrix NA North AmericaSA South AmericabArea of the oldest stem fossil belonging to the terminal branch represented by each living taxon
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from Europe in the early Cenozoic and insectivoresthat arrived in the Neogene [124]
Asher et al [125] Zack et al [126] and Tabuce et al[127] suggested that the geographical distributions ofliving afrotherians are not representative of the histori-cal geographical distribution of this clade and thatAfrotheria is Holarctic in origin based on the place-ment of extinct taxa from the Palaeocene of Laurasiawithin or at the base of Afrotheria However pseu-doextinction tests call into question the reliability ofthe placement of fossil taxa in morphological cladisticanalyses [3]
The oldest xenarthran fossils are scutes from thePalaeocene of South America [71] Living membersof Xenarthra (anteaters sloths armadillos) are
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
restricted to South and Central America with theexception of the nine-banded armadillo whose ances-tors dispersed to North America during the GreatAmerican Interchange [128] Simpson [129130] sup-ported the view that South American xenarthransevolved in situ during South Americarsquos isolation fromother continents in the early Tertiary All of our ana-lyses are consistent with the hypothesis that SouthAmerica was the ancestral area for Xenarthra (figures3 and 4)
The remaining placental orders are placed in Laur-asiatheria (Eulipotyphla Chiroptera PerissodactylaCetartiodactyla Carnivora Pholidota) and Euarchon-toglires (Primates Dermoptera Scandentia RodentiaLagomorpha) With the exception of bats these orders
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Cenozoic
Paleogene
Ma
Upper Miocene PP
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Paleoc
100
OligEoceneCretaceousMesozoic
Choloepus
Tamandua
MyrmecophagaEuphractus
Chaetophractus
Erinaceus
Talpa
Sorex
Echinops
Amblysomus
Procavia
Loxodonta
MacroscelidesElephantulus
Orycteropus
Tamias
Muscardinus
Mus
Rattus
PedetesHystrix
Castor
Dipodomys
CaviaHydrochaeris
Erethizon
SylvilagusOchotona
Cynocephalus
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Tragelaphus
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26
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40
Figure 4 Ancestral area chronogram for 43 placental taxa from Springer et al [3] with area coding based on the oldest fossil foreach lineage RAxML was used to infer phylogenetic relationships BEAST was used to infer divergence times and MAC par-simony was used to infer ancestral areas with the step matrix in figure 2 Areas for the oldest fossil lineage are enumerated intable 2 and are colour-coded as follows Africa blue Eurasia green North America brown South America red Nodes with
unambiguous ancestral area reconstructions are shown with a single coloured circle nodes with ambiguous reconstructions areshown with two or more circles and each coloured circle corresponds to a different reconstruction
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have first fossil occurrences that are exclusively Laura-sian Our reconstructions provide support for Eurasiabut not North America as the ancestral area for theseclades (figures 3 and 4) These results are consistent
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
with previous suggestions that Cretaceous zhelestidsand zamlambdalestids from Asia are members ofcrown Placentalia [131132] Further the fossilrecord suggests that Eutheria were dominant in
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(Con
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
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Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
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Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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171 Luo Z-X Ji Q Wible J R amp Yuan X 2003 AnEarly Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metather-
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D 2009 The oldest modern therian mammal fromEurope and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeo-graphy Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 19 910ndash19 915
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175 Cifelli R L 1993 Theria of metatherianndasheutherian
grade and the origin of marsupials In Mammal phylo-geny Mesozoic differentiation multituberculatesmonotremes early therians and marsupials vol 1 (edsF S Szalay M J Novacek amp M C McKenna) pp205ndash215 Berlin Germany Springer
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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)
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(Con
tinued
)
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nod
en
o
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24
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1110
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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)
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(Con
tinued
)
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en
o
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24
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1110
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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Hedges amp S Kumar) pp 466ndash470 Oxford UKOxford University Press
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(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
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In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Table 5 Comparison of different methods for reconstructing ancestral areas NA1 not applicable for monomorphic
reconstruction methods NA2 not applicable when the maximum number of areas is set at two NA2 not applicable formethods that employ single multistate charactersa
FP-MBC FP-SMCMACParsimony DIVA DIVA-2 DEC DEC-2 SM-MBC SM-SMC
nodes with ambiguous 75 129 128 1211 107 2323 2623 1617 614reconstructionsb 1920 1718 1012 410
nodes with 2 areasc 33 NA1 46 1618 1516 1820 2019 77 NA11720 1717 46
nodes with 3 areasd 00 NA1 00 65 NA2 66 NA2 00 NA145 00
empty nodese 95 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 NA3 34 NA344
aNumbers before slashes are based on analyses with area coding for extant taxa and numbers after slashes are based on analyses with areacoding for the oldest fossil See table 3 for abbreviationsbFor FP-MBC nodes were considered ambiguous if at least one area was reconstructed as (01) For SM-MBC and SM-SMC nodes wereconsidered ambiguous if the posterior probability (PP) of at least one area was 01 PP 09 (top line) or 02 PP 08 (bottom line)For DEC and DEC-2 nodes were considered ambiguous if the frequency ( f ) of at least one area was 01 f 09 (top line) or 02 p 08 (bottom line)cAt least two areas in at least one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) was takento include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line) or020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02 (bottomline)dAt least three areas in more than one of the alternate resolutions for an ancestral node For FP-MBC each occurrence of 1 or (01) wastaken to include an ancestral area For SM-MBC areas were counted as present at a node if posterior probabilities were 010 (top line)or 020 (bottom line) For DEC and DEC-2 areas were counted as present at a node if frequencies were 01 (top line) or 02(bottom line)eFor FP-MBC nodes were considered empty if all areas were reconstructed as 0 For SM-MBC nodes were considered empty if posteriorprobabilities were 010 (top line) or 020 (bottom line) for all four areas
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Eurasia throughout the Cretaceous but were absentfrom North America through much of the Late Cre-taceous and only attained appreciable diversity thereduring the last approximately 10 Myr of the period[133134] Boyer et al [135] concluded that theIndian subcontinent Eurasia and Africa are morelikely places of origin for Euarchonta than is NorthAmerica This agrees with our ancestral areareconstructions (figures 3 4 and tables 3 4)
Although there is robust support for the monophylyof Xenarthra Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria relation-ships among these three groups and the root of theplacental tree remain contentious [105460ndash63136]Murphy et al [62] and Springer et al [10] suggested acausal relationship between the sundering of Africa andSouth America and basal cladogenesis among crown-group placental mammals given the coincidence ofmolecular dates for the base of placentals and thevicariant separation of Africa and South Americaapproximately 100ndash120 Ma
Asher et al [125] analysed a combined matrix andrecovered Afrotheria in a nested position within Pla-centalia which contradicts the hypothesis that theplate tectonic separation of Africa and South Americaplayed a causal role in the early cladogenesis of placen-tal mammals However the nested position forAfrotheria resulted from the paraphyly of Euarchonto-glires Glires and Rodentia Rare genomic changesconfirm the monophyly of Xenarthra [137] Afrotheria[138ndash142] Euarchontoglires [139141142] Laura-siatheria [139141142] and Boreoeutheria[139141142] and preclude a nested position forAfrotheria in the placental tree
Rare genomic changes have also been used toexamine the position of the placental root Kriegs
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et al [139] reported LINE insertions that are sharedby Epitheria whereas Murphy et al [16] discoveredrare genomic changes that support AtlantogenataNishihara et al [142] performed genome-wide retro-poson analyses and found 22 25 and 21 LINEinsertions for Exafroplacentalia Epitheria and Atlan-togenata respectively Based on these resultsNishihara et al [142] concluded that XenarthraAfrotheria and Boreoeutheria diverged from oneanother nearly simultaneously They also suggested anew palaeogeographical model for the breakup of Pan-gaea and Gondwana in which Africa becomes isolatedfrom both South America and Laurasia at approxi-mately 120 Ma and argued that these coeval platetectonic events provide an explanation for the simul-taneous divergence of Afrotheria Xenarthra andBoreoeutheria However relaxed clock dates for thebase of Placentalia are closer to 100 Ma than to120 Ma (figures 3 and 4) A second difficulty concernsthe opening of the South Atlantic Nishihara et al[142] suggested that the Brazilian Bridge which rep-resented the last connection between Africa andSouth America was severed at approximately120 Mya but other recent reconstructions suggestthat the connection between the South Atlantic andCentral Atlantic was not established until lateAptianmid-Albian times (approx 110ndash100 Ma)[143144]
8 THE IMPORTANCE OF DISPERSALIn the context of pre-plate tectonic views of theEarth Simpson [2] proposed three types ofmigration routes to describe the movement of ani-mals corridors filter bridges and sweepstakes
Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Africa
Mad
agas
car
Tanzania
Mozambique
N
100 mi
Figure 5 Present day surface ocean currents in the Mozam-bique Channel (solid arrows) are southndashsouthwest andwould not have facilitated west to east transoceanic dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar [153] By contrast westerly sur-face ocean currents in the Eocene (dashed arrows) would
have facilitated dispersal across the Mozambique Channelfrom Africa to Madagascar especially during tropicalstorms [154] The outline of Madagascar with dashed linesshows its approximate position relative to Africa during theEocene
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dispersal Corridors connect two areas and are per-meable to all animals filter bridges impose selectivebarriers that affect some but not all animals andsweepstakes dispersal is required when there arestrong barriers to migration such as high mountainbarriers or oceans
Simpson [2] suggested that Madagascarrsquos livingmammals were the product of sweepstakes dispersalfrom Africa to Madagascar Sweepstakes dispersalhypotheses fell out of favour with the validation ofplate tectonic theory and were summarily dismissedas lsquomiraculousrsquo hypotheses with no scientific basis[145] However it has become apparent that some dis-tributional patterns can only be explained bysweepstakes dispersal [146] Observational data alsoprovide support for long-distance vertebrate dispersal[147] Examples of low probability sweepstakes disper-sal involving mammals include the origins of theendemic mammal fauna in Madagascar and theoccurrence of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine pri-mates in South America
Madagascarrsquos strictly terrestrial extant mammal faunaincludes endemic lineages from four placental orderstenrecs (Afrosoricida) euplerids (Carnivora) neso-myines (Rodentia) and lemurs (Primates) In eachlineage Madagascar endemics comprise monophyleticassemblages with closest living relatives in Africa[148149] Madagascar separated from Africa approxi-mately 165 Ma but maintained its connection withAntarctica via the Kerguelen Plateau until as late as80 Ma at which time it became permanentlyseparated from other Gondwanan landmasses This his-tory suggests that Madagascarrsquos terrestrial endemicmammals are either the ancient descendants of vicariantevents that occurred prior to 80 Ma or reached Mada-gascar via transoceanic sweepstakes dispersal at a latertime Another possibility is that a land bridge connectedAfrica and Madagascar between 45 and 26 Ma [150]
Molecular divergence dates suggest that all fourendemic lineages last shared a common ancestorwith their African sister group in the Cenozoic[148149151152] Poux et al [148] concluded thatdispersal by lemurs rodents and carnivorans musthave occurred by transoceanic dispersal rather thanland bridge dispersal based on molecular dates forthe colonization of Madagascar that were outside ofthe land bridge window ie 60ndash50 Ma for lemurs26ndash19 Ma for carnivorans and 24ndash20 Ma for rodentsHowever present ocean currents allow for dispersalfrom Madagascar to Africa but oppose reciprocal dis-persal from Africa to Madagascar across theMozambique Channel If ocean currents were thesame for most of the Cenozoic as they are todaythey would not have facilitated west to east transocea-nic dispersal across the Mozambique Channel becauseof the strong southndashsouthwest flow of the Mozambi-que Current [153]
Ali amp Huber [154] addressed this problem by simu-lating surface ocean currents in the Indian Oceanduring the Eocene They concluded that large-scaleocean current systems in the Eocene were profoundlydifferent from modern observed circulatory patternsand that the flow along the African coast was eastwardtowards Madagascar instead of southward through the
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Mozambique Channel (figure 5) Ali amp Huber [154]further suggested that dispersal probabilities wereenhanced by tropical storms that (i) generated largefloating tree islands that would have allowed for asuccessful oceanic voyage and (ii) acceleratedtransportation rates from Africa to Madagascar thatwould have allowed for complete crossing of theMozambique Channel in 25ndash30 days
The dispersal of four groups of fully terrestrialmammals from Africa to Madagascar at a time whenthere was no land bridge is a testament to the impor-tance of rare sweepstakes events in the evolutionaryhistory of Placentalia Even more remarkable is theoccurrence of two different groups of placental mam-mals hystricognath rodents and anthropoid primatesin Africa and South America
Hystricognathi includes Hystricidae (Old World por-cupines) and Phiomorpha (eg cane rats dassie rats)from the Old World and Caviomorpha (eg porcupineschinchillas) from the New World The oldest hystricog-naths are from the late Eocene Egypt and have beendated at approximately 37 Ma [81] Old World hystri-cognaths are paraphyletic usually with phiomorphshaving closer phylogenetic affinities to South Americancaviomorphs than to hystricids [14155156] Relaxedclock dates suggest that South American caviomorphslast shared a common ancestor with phiomorphsbetween 45 and 36 Ma [81155157] The most recentcommon ancestor of Caviomorpha has been dated at45ndash31 Ma [81155157158]
PacificOcean
NorthAtlanticOcean
SouthAtlantic Ocean
IndianOcean
NorthAmerica
SouthAmerica
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
PacificOcean1b
1b
1a3
2
Middle Eocene
Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
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phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Figure 6 Alternate hypotheses for the dispersal of platyrrhine and caviomorph ancestors respectively from AfricaAsia toSouth America Hypothesis 1 transoceanic dispersal (1a) from Africa to South America possibly with an earlier dispersalfrom Asia to Africa (1b) if origination occurred in Asia Hypothesis 2 dispersal from Asia through North America to
South America Hypothesis 3 dispersal from Asia to South America via Australia and Antarctica after two transoceanic cross-ings Middle Eocene world map based on Palaeomap Project (httpwwwscotsecomnewpage9htm)
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Among anthropoids Old World catarrhines (egmacaques apes) and South American platyrrhines(eg marmosets capuchins spider monkeys) are reci-procally monophyletic sister taxa The oldestanthropoid fossils are from the Old World althoughwhether the most recent common ancestor of Anthro-poidea is African or Asian is uncertain [108159160]Poux et al [155] dated the split between catarrhinesand platyrrhines at approximately 37 Ma and thebase of Platyrrhini at approximately 17 Ma
The vicariant separation of Africa and South Amer-ica (110ndash100 Ma) is too old to explain the separationof either Phiomorpha and Caviomorpha or Catarrhiniand Platyrrhini Similarly Arnason et alrsquos [161]hypothesis of land bridge dispersal during the LateCretaceousndashEarly Palaeocene is too old for relaxedclock dates which instead rule out the colonizationof South America by Caviomorpha and Platyrrhiniprior to the Eocene Other hypotheses for the coloni-zation of South America by caviomorphs andorplatyrrhines include (i) trans-Atlantic dispersal fromAfrica to South America [162] (ii) dispersal fromAsia through North America to South America[163164] and (iii) dispersal from Asia to SouthAmerica via Australia and Antarctica after two oceancrossings (figure 6) [165]
Most workers favour transoceanic dispersal fromAfrica to South America for both Caviomorpha and Pla-tyrrhini Dispersal through Asia and North America is anintriguing possibility but palaeontological data provideno support for migrations through North America Simi-larly dispersal from Asia to South America throughAustralia and Antarctica lacks palaeontological supportrequires multiple transoceanic dispersals and becomeseven less likely after the Eocene because of the severedconnection between Antarctica and South Americaand climatic deterioration in Antarctica associated withthe opening of the Drake Passage In view of
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
phylogenetic geological palaeontological and moleculardata trans-Atlantic dispersal is the most likely scenariofor colonization of South America by caviomorphs andplatyrrhines
9 BAT BIOGEOGRAPHYIn contrast to other mammals bats are capable ofpowered flight which has profoundly enhanced theirdispersal capabilities The occurrence of seven differ-ent families of extant bats in Madagascar includingthe endemic sucker-footed bats (Family Myzopodi-dae) and of another family in New Zealand theshort-tailed bats (Family Mystacinidae) providesabundant evidence of the dispersal capabilities ofbats [166]
The oldest bat fossils are from the Early Eocene ofNorth America [167168] Early Eocene bats are alsoknown from Europe Africa and Australia [167] Theprevalent view is that bats originated in Laurasia buta minority view holds that bats originated in Gond-wana [169170] Teeling et al [13] reconstructedancestral areas for bats with (i) multistate-coded datafor the current global distribution of each lineagewith nine different character states (Europe AfricaAsia Madagascar Australia New Zealand NorthAmerica Central thorn South America and West Indies)and (ii) binary-coded data for the earliest fossil occur-rence for each lineage (Laurasia versus Gondwana)Teeling et alrsquos [13] results suggested North Americaor Laurasia as the ancestral area for bats and AsiaEurope or Laurasia as the ancestral area for both Yinp-terochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Eick et al [12]used DIVA [33] to estimate ancestral areas for Chirop-tera and its subclades and coded areas based oncurrent distributions for each family Seven areas(Africa Asia Australia Europe North AmericaSouth America and New Zealand) were recognized
Table 6 A comparison of ancestral area reconstructions for bats based on DIVA analyses Eick et al [12] coded the presence
or absence of extant bat families in seven different areas and performed DIVA analyses with no constraints on the maximumnumber of areas We re-analysed Eick et alrsquos [12] dataset with DIVA using the same settings reported by these authorsAfrica A Asia B Australia C Europe D North America E South America F New Zealand G
node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
14 A A B C AC BC ABC15 A A B C AC BC
16 A A B C17 A A B AC BC ABC
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
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Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
1
2
3
4
56
7
8
9
10
11
1213
14
1516
17
EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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node number (figure 7) Eick et al [12] re-analysis
1 A ABCEF ABDEF ABCDEF ABEFG ABCEFG ABDEFG ABCDEFG2 A ACEF BCEF ABCEF DEF ADEF BDEF ABDEF ACDEF BCDEF
ABCDEF AEFG ABEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG DEFGADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
3 AE AF E AE BE CE ACE BCE ABCE F AF BF CF ACF BCF ABCFCEF ACEF BCEF ABCEF AG BG CG ACG BCG ABCG AEGBEG CEG ACEG BCEG ABCEG AFG BFG CFG ACFG BCFGABCFG AEFG BEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFG ABCEFG
4 E F E F EG FG EFG5 E F E F6 E F E F7 E F E F8 EG FG EFG EG FG EFG
9 A A B AC BC ABC AE BE ABE ACE BCE ABCE AF BF ABF ACFBCF ABCF AEF BEF ABEF ACEF BCEF
10 A A AC AD ACD ABCD ACE ADE ACDE ABCDE ACF ADFACDF ABCDF ACEF ADEF ACDEF ABCDEF ACDEG ABCDEGACDFG ABCDFG ACDEFG ABCDEFG
11 AE AF AEF AE CE DE CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE AF CF DF CDF ACDFBCDF ABCDF AEF CEF DEF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEFCDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG CDFG ACDFG BCDFGABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFG ABCDEFG
12 A A C D CD ACD BCD ABCD CDE ACDE BCDE ABCDE CDF
ACDF BCDF ABCDF CDEF ACDEF BCDEF ABCDEF CDGACDG BCDG ABCDG CDEG ACDEG BCDEG ABCDEGCDFG ACDFG BCDFG ABCDFG CDEFG ACDEFG BCDEFGABCDEFG
13 A A B C D AG BG ABG CG ACG BCG ABCG DG ADG BDG
ABDG CDG ACDG BCDG ABCDG AEG BEG ABEG CEGACEG BCEG ABCEG DEG ADEG BDEG ABDEG CDEGACDEG BCDEG ABCDEG AFG BFG ABFG CFG ACFGBCFG ABCFG DFG ADFG BDFG ABDFG CDFG ACDFG
BCDFG ABCDFG AEFG BEFG ABEFG CEFG ACEFG BCEFGABCEFG DEFG ADEFG BDEFG ABDEFG CDEFG ACDEFGBCDEFG ABCDEFG
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and Africa was reconstructed as the ancestral area forthe most recent common ancestors of ChiropteraYinpterochiroptera and Yangochiroptera Lim [47]used parsimony to reconstruct ancestral areas andalso recovered Africa as the ancestral area forYangochiroptera and its deepest nodes
We recovered more inclusive ancestral areas forChiroptera Yinpterochiroptera and Yangochiropterawhen we performed analyses with DIVA using thesame data and settings that were reported by Eicket al [12] (figure 7 and table 6) The reconstructionfor the base of Chiroptera was equivocal and includedseven different possibilities all of which were equallyparsimonious based on DIVArsquos criteria for minimiz-ing dispersal and extinction (figure 7 and table 6)Each of these reconstructions included at least fiveareas and four areas (Africa Asia North Americaand South America) were common to all sevenreconstructions
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
Among the most comprehensive studies in mamma-lian historical biogeography are Limrsquos [4647] analysesof South American bats Ancestral reconstructions pro-vided evidence for multiple dispersals from Africa toSouth America One dispersal occurred in Noctilionoi-dea (Eocene approx 42 Ma) and another occurred inEmballonuroidea (Oligocene approx 30 Ma) Vesperti-lionoidea have a more complex history that involvesnumerous independent dispersals from Africa(Eocene earliest event approx 50 Ma) as well asfrom North America Lim [46] used PACT to examineevolutionary processes that have been important in thediversification of South American emballonurids Hisgeneral area cladogram revealed a complex historywith multiple vicariant within-area and dispersalevents all playing a role Within-area speciation duringthe Miocene particularly in the northern Amazonarea was the most important diversification process inthis group Lim [47] correlated Miocene speciation
FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
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2
3
4
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8
9
10
11
1213
14
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EFEFEFEFEFGABCEFABAABCDEFABCDABCDEFGEFABCABCDABABCABC
Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
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sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
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53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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FuripteridaeNoctilionidaeMormoopidaePhyllostomidaeThyropteridaeMystacinidaeEmballonuridaeNycteridaeMyzopodidaeMolossidaeMiniopteridaeVespertilionidaeNatalidaeHipposideridaeRhinolophidaeRhinopomatidaeMegadermatidaePteropodidae
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Figure 7 Eick et alrsquos [12] phylogeny and area coding forextant bat families Ancestral area reconstructions based onDIVA analyses are shown in table 6 for nodes 1ndash17Africa A Asia B Australia C Europe D North AmericaE South America F New Zealand G
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with contemporaneous climatic and habitat changes thatoccurred in the Amazon Basin Construction of anancestral area cladogram for all bat species will providean unprecedented opportunity to examine the impor-tance of transoceanic dispersal in promotingtaxonomic diversity in this highly successful group ofmammals
10 MARSUPIAL BIOGEOGRAPHYThe oldest metatherian is Sinodelphys from China[171] Cretaceous marsupial fossils are also knownfrom Europe [172173] and North America [174ndash178] The consensus is that metatherians originatedin Asia and subsequently dispersed to North Americaand Europe [173]
In contrast to the Cretaceous record of Metatheriaalmost all living metatherians have geographical distri-butions that are entirely Gondwanan Case et al[179] suggested that the ancestor of living marsupialsdispersed to South America in the Late Cretaceous orearly Palaeocene The South American marsupialcohort Ameridelphia which includes Paucituberculata(shrew opossums) and Didelphimorphia (opossums)is paraphyletic at the base of Australidelphia whichincludes the South American order Microbiotheria(monito del monte) and the Australasian orders Dipro-todontia (eg wombats kangaroos) Dasyuromorphia(eg quolls numbats) Peramelemorphia (eg bandi-coots bilbies) and Notoryctemorphia (marsupialmoles) [1721180ndash182]
Subsequent to Kirsch et alrsquos [183] single-copyDNA hybridization study of marsupials whichplaced South American microbiotheres within Austra-lidelphia marsupial biogeographers have focused onthe monophyly or paraphyly of Australasian taxa Aus-tralasian monophyly is consistent with a singledispersal from South America to Australia via Antarcticabut Australasian paraphyly requires either multiple dis-persals to Australia or dispersal to Australia followedby back dispersal to South America [183ndash185] Molecu-lar phylogenies based on concatenated nuclear gene
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
sequences [21182] and retroposon insertions [186] sup-port the monophyly of Australasian marsupials andsuggest that Australasian marsupials last shared acommon ancestor with microbiotheres between 65 and58 Ma This phylogeny is compatible with a single dis-persal event from South America to Australia viaAntarctica [21] This dispersal would have been overlandif it occurred prior to the complete submergence of theSouth Tasman Rise approximately 64 Ma [187]
In contrast Beck et al [181] analysed a datasetcomprising living and fossil taxa including the earlyEocene genus Djarthia from Australia and recovereda sister-group relationship between Djarthia andliving australidelphians Beck et alrsquos [181] topologysuggest that South American microbiotheres back-dis-persed from eastern Gondwana to South America eventhough living Australasian marsupials comprise amonophyletic taxon However the decay index thatassociates crown Australidelphia to the exclusion ofDjarthia is only one step This result highlights thepotential importance of fossils for inferring biogeo-graphic history and the precarious nature ofconclusions based on a fragmentary fossil record
11 MONOTREME BIOGEOGRAPHYLiving monotremes include the semi-aquatic platypus(Ornithorhynchus) which occurs in Australia and Tas-mania and echidnas which occur in Australia(Tachyglossus) and New Guinea (Zaglossus) Theoldest monotreme is Teinolophos (121ndash1125 Ma) ofAustralia Rowe et al [188] suggested that Teinolophosis a crown monotreme based on cladistic analyses
In contrast to this ancient fossil record relaxedclock estimates for the platypus-echidna divergencerange from 889 to 277 Ma [188ndash191] and are tooyoung to accommodate Teinolophos in crown-groupMonotremata Rather these dates suggest that Teinolo-phos lies on the monotreme stem branch Youngermonotreme fossils whether stem or crown are exclu-sively from the Southern Hemisphere Luo et al[192193] and Kielan-Jaworowska et al [194]suggested that Monotremata belongs to the moreinclusive Gondwanan clade Australosphenidaalthough other studies place these Mesozoic taxacloser to Theria than to Monotremata [188189]
With or without these Mesozoic taxa it appears thatthe entire evolutionary history of Monotremata isrestricted to Gondwana Details of this history are diffi-cult to reconstruct owing to Monotrematarsquos depauperatetaxonomic diversity and meagre fossil record Futurefossil discoveries and more robust phylogenetic analysesare essential for revealing the full biogeographic range ofancient monotremes in Gondwana The occurrence ofmonotremes in Australia and South America suggeststhat their ancestral distribution may have includedother fragments of Gondwana such as Africa AntarcticaIndia and Madagascar
12 CONCLUSIONSContemporary methods for deciphering palaeobiogeo-graphy are underpinned by phylogenies divergencetimes and ancestral area reconstructions which
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
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Sci USA 106 17 089ndash17 094 (doi101073pnas0904649106)
191 Springer M S amp Krajewski C 2009 Monotremes
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In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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together yield ancestral area chronograms that providea powerful framework for proposing and testinghypotheses of dispersal and vicariance when evaluatedin the context of palaeographic hypotheses The toolkitfor unravelling historical patterns of vicariance anddispersal that have moulded the evolutionary historyof Mammalia now includes molecular data fossilsreconstructions of palaeogeography and palaeo-oceancurrents and a burgeoning array of methods in phylo-geny reconstruction molecular dating and ancestralarea reconstruction Larger and taxonomically morecomplete molecular datasets new fossil discoveriesand the application of new techniques will lead to sig-nificant advances in our understanding of thehistorical biogeography of Mammalia
MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Threeanonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on anearlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones forinviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
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- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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and the origin of bats J Mamm Evol 12 209ndash246(doi101007s10914-005-6945-2)
168 Simmons N B Seymour K L Habersetzer J ampGunnel G F 2008 Primitive early Eocene bat from
Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocationNature 451 818ndash822
169 Sige B 1991 Rhinolophoidae et Vespertilionoidea(Chiroptera) du Chambi (Eocene inferieur de Tunisie)Aspects biostratigraphique biogeographique and
paleoecologique de lrsquoorigine des chiropters modernesNeues Jahrb Geol Palaontol Abh 182 355ndash376
170 Hand S J amp Kirsch J A W 1998 A southern originfor the Hipposideridae (Microchiroptera) Evidencefrom the Australian fossil record In Bats phylogenymorphology echolocation and conservation biology (edsT H Kunz amp P A Racey) pp 72ndash90 WashingtonDC Smithsonian Institution Press
171 Luo Z-X Ji Q Wible J R amp Yuan X 2003 AnEarly Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metather-
ian evolution Science 302 1934ndash1939 (doi101126science1090718)
172 Martin J E Case J A Jagt J W M Schulp A S ampMulder E W A 2005 A new European marsupial indi-cates a Late Cretaceous high-latitude transatlantic
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
dispersal route J Mamm Evol 12 495ndash511 (doi101007s10914-005-7330-x)
173 Vullo R Gheerbrant E de Muizon C amp Neraudeau
D 2009 The oldest modern therian mammal fromEurope and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeo-graphy Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 19 910ndash19 915
174 Cifelli R L 1990 Cretaceous mammals of SouthernUtah II marsupials and marsupialndashlike mammals
from the Wahweap Formation (Early Campanian)J Vertebr Paleontol 10 320ndash331 (doi10108002724634199010011817)
175 Cifelli R L 1993 Theria of metatherianndasheutherian
grade and the origin of marsupials In Mammal phylo-geny Mesozoic differentiation multituberculatesmonotremes early therians and marsupials vol 1 (edsF S Szalay M J Novacek amp M C McKenna) pp205ndash215 Berlin Germany Springer
176 Cifelli R L 2004 Marsupial mammals from the Albian-Cenomanian (Early-Late Cretaceous) boundary UtahBull Am Mus Nat Hist 285 62ndash79 (doi1012060003-0090(2004)2850062C20CO2)
177 Wible J R 1990 Late Cretaceous marsupial petrosal
bones from North America and a cladistic analysis ofthe petrosal in therian mammals J Vertebr Paleontol10 183ndash205 (doi10108002724634199010011807)
178 Cifelli R L amp de Muizon C 1997 Dentition and jawof Kokopellia juddi a primitive marsupial or near-marsu-
pial from the medial Cretaceous of Utah J MammEvol 4 241ndash258 (doi101023A1027394430433)
179 Case J A Goin F J amp Woodburne M O 2005lsquoSouth Americanrsquo marsupials from the Late Cretaceous
of North America and the origin of marsupial cohortsJ Mamm Evol 11 223ndash255 (doi101023BJOMM00000473393963082)
180 Amrine-Madsen H Scally M Westerman MStanhope M J Krajewski C amp Springer M S
2003 Nuclear gene sequences provide evidence for themonophyly of australidelphian marsupials MolPhylogenet Evol 28 186ndash196 (doi101016S1055-7903(03)00122-2)
181 Beck R M Godthelp H Weisbecker V Archer M
amp Hand S J 2008 Australiarsquos oldest marsupial fossilsand their biogeographical implications PLoS ONE 3e1858 (doi101371journalpone0001858)
182 Springer M S Krajewski C amp Meredith R W 2009Marsupials (Metatheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B
Hedges amp S Kumar) pp 466ndash470 Oxford UKOxford University Press
183 Kirsch J A W Dickerman A W Reig O A ampSpringer M S 1991 DNA hybridization evidence
for the Australasian affinity of the American marsupialDromiciops australis Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 8810 465ndash10 469 (doi101073pnas882310465)
184 Kirsch J A W Lapointe F-J amp Springer M S 1997DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their
implications for metatherian classificationAust J Zool 45 211ndash280 (doi101071ZO96030)
185 Springer M S Westerman M Kavanagh J R BurkA Woodburne M O Kao D amp Krajewski C 1998The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the
phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito delmonte and marsupial mole Proc R Soc Lond B 2652381ndash2386 (doi101098rspb19980587)
186 Nilsson M A Churakov G Sommer M Tran NV Zemann A Brosius J amp Schmitz J 2010 Tracking
marsupial evolution using archaic genomic retroposoninsertions PLoS Biol 8 e1000436 (doi101371jour-nalpbio1000436)
187 Woodburne M O amp Case J A 1996 Dispersal vicar-iance and the Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary land
2502 M S Springer et al Mammalian historical biogeography
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
mammal biogeography from South America to Austra-lia J Mamm Evol 3 121ndash161 (doi101007BF01454359)
188 Rowe T Rich T H VickersndashRich P Springer MS amp Woodburne M O 2008 The oldest platypusand its bearing on divergence timing of the platypusand echidna clades Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1051238ndash1242 (doi101073pnas0706385105)
189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
Sci USA 106 17 089ndash17 094 (doi101073pnas0904649106)
191 Springer M S amp Krajewski C 2009 Monotremes
(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
192 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2001Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals Nature 409
53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocationNature 451 818ndash822
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171 Luo Z-X Ji Q Wible J R amp Yuan X 2003 AnEarly Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metather-
ian evolution Science 302 1934ndash1939 (doi101126science1090718)
172 Martin J E Case J A Jagt J W M Schulp A S ampMulder E W A 2005 A new European marsupial indi-cates a Late Cretaceous high-latitude transatlantic
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
dispersal route J Mamm Evol 12 495ndash511 (doi101007s10914-005-7330-x)
173 Vullo R Gheerbrant E de Muizon C amp Neraudeau
D 2009 The oldest modern therian mammal fromEurope and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeo-graphy Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 19 910ndash19 915
174 Cifelli R L 1990 Cretaceous mammals of SouthernUtah II marsupials and marsupialndashlike mammals
from the Wahweap Formation (Early Campanian)J Vertebr Paleontol 10 320ndash331 (doi10108002724634199010011817)
175 Cifelli R L 1993 Theria of metatherianndasheutherian
grade and the origin of marsupials In Mammal phylo-geny Mesozoic differentiation multituberculatesmonotremes early therians and marsupials vol 1 (edsF S Szalay M J Novacek amp M C McKenna) pp205ndash215 Berlin Germany Springer
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177 Wible J R 1990 Late Cretaceous marsupial petrosal
bones from North America and a cladistic analysis ofthe petrosal in therian mammals J Vertebr Paleontol10 183ndash205 (doi10108002724634199010011807)
178 Cifelli R L amp de Muizon C 1997 Dentition and jawof Kokopellia juddi a primitive marsupial or near-marsu-
pial from the medial Cretaceous of Utah J MammEvol 4 241ndash258 (doi101023A1027394430433)
179 Case J A Goin F J amp Woodburne M O 2005lsquoSouth Americanrsquo marsupials from the Late Cretaceous
of North America and the origin of marsupial cohortsJ Mamm Evol 11 223ndash255 (doi101023BJOMM00000473393963082)
180 Amrine-Madsen H Scally M Westerman MStanhope M J Krajewski C amp Springer M S
2003 Nuclear gene sequences provide evidence for themonophyly of australidelphian marsupials MolPhylogenet Evol 28 186ndash196 (doi101016S1055-7903(03)00122-2)
181 Beck R M Godthelp H Weisbecker V Archer M
amp Hand S J 2008 Australiarsquos oldest marsupial fossilsand their biogeographical implications PLoS ONE 3e1858 (doi101371journalpone0001858)
182 Springer M S Krajewski C amp Meredith R W 2009Marsupials (Metatheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B
Hedges amp S Kumar) pp 466ndash470 Oxford UKOxford University Press
183 Kirsch J A W Dickerman A W Reig O A ampSpringer M S 1991 DNA hybridization evidence
for the Australasian affinity of the American marsupialDromiciops australis Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 8810 465ndash10 469 (doi101073pnas882310465)
184 Kirsch J A W Lapointe F-J amp Springer M S 1997DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their
implications for metatherian classificationAust J Zool 45 211ndash280 (doi101071ZO96030)
185 Springer M S Westerman M Kavanagh J R BurkA Woodburne M O Kao D amp Krajewski C 1998The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the
phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito delmonte and marsupial mole Proc R Soc Lond B 2652381ndash2386 (doi101098rspb19980587)
186 Nilsson M A Churakov G Sommer M Tran NV Zemann A Brosius J amp Schmitz J 2010 Tracking
marsupial evolution using archaic genomic retroposoninsertions PLoS Biol 8 e1000436 (doi101371jour-nalpbio1000436)
187 Woodburne M O amp Case J A 1996 Dispersal vicar-iance and the Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary land
2502 M S Springer et al Mammalian historical biogeography
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
mammal biogeography from South America to Austra-lia J Mamm Evol 3 121ndash161 (doi101007BF01454359)
188 Rowe T Rich T H VickersndashRich P Springer MS amp Woodburne M O 2008 The oldest platypusand its bearing on divergence timing of the platypusand echidna clades Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1051238ndash1242 (doi101073pnas0706385105)
189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
Sci USA 106 17 089ndash17 094 (doi101073pnas0904649106)
191 Springer M S amp Krajewski C 2009 Monotremes
(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
192 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2001Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals Nature 409
53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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156 Blanga-Kanfi S Miranda H Penn O Pupko TDeBry R W amp Huchon D 2009 Rodent phylogeny
Mammalian historical biogeography M S Springer et al 2501
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revised analysis of six nuclear genes from all majorrodent clades BMC Evol Biol 9 71 (doi1011861471-2148-9-71)
157 Hasegawa M Thorne J L amp Kishino H 2003 Timescale of eutherian evolution estimated without assuminga constant rate of molecular evolution Genes Gen Syst78 267ndash283 (doi101266ggs78267)
158 Rowe D L Dunn K A Adkins R M amp Honeycutt
R L 2010 Molecular clocks keep dispersal hypothesesafloat evidence for trans-Atlantic rafting by rodentsJ Biogeogr 7 305ndash324
159 Beard K C Wang B Dawson M Huang X amp
Tong Y 1996 Earliest complete dentition of an anthro-poid primate from the late middle Eocene of ShanxiProvince China Science 272 82ndash85 (doi101126science272525882)
160 Beard K C amp Wang J 2004 The eosimiid primates
(Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation Yuanqu BasinShanxi and Henan Provinces Peoplersquos Republic ofChina J Hum Evol 46 401ndash432 (doi101016jjhevol200401002)
161 Arnason U Gullberg A Schweizer B A amp Janke A
2000 Molecular estimates for primate dispersal and theorigin of modern humans Hereditas 133 217ndash228(doi101111j1601-5223200000217x)
162 Lavocat R 1969 La systematique des rongeurs hystri-comorphes et la derive des continents C R AcadSci Ser D 269 1496ndash1497
163 Hussain S T de Bruijn H amp Leinders J M 1978Middle Eocene rodents from the Kala Chitta Range(Punjab Pakistan) (III) Proc Kon Ned AkadWetensch Ser B 81 101ndash112
164 Wood A E 1985 The relationships origin and disper-sal of the hystricognathous rodents In Evolutionaryrelationships among rodents a multidisciplinary analysis(eds W P Luckett amp J-L Hartenberger) pp 475ndash
513 New York NY Plenum165 Houle A 1999 The origin of platyrrhines an evalu-
ation of the Antarctic scenario and the floating islandmodel Am J Phys Anthropol 109 541ndash559 (doi101002(SICI)1096-8644(199908)1094541AID-
AJPA930CO2-N)166 Tattersall I 2005 Mechanisms of faunal origin and
diversity in island environments the case of Madagas-carrsquos mammals Hellenic J Geosci 41 35ndash46
167 Gunnell G F amp Simmons N B 2005 Fossil evidence
and the origin of bats J Mamm Evol 12 209ndash246(doi101007s10914-005-6945-2)
168 Simmons N B Seymour K L Habersetzer J ampGunnel G F 2008 Primitive early Eocene bat from
Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocationNature 451 818ndash822
169 Sige B 1991 Rhinolophoidae et Vespertilionoidea(Chiroptera) du Chambi (Eocene inferieur de Tunisie)Aspects biostratigraphique biogeographique and
paleoecologique de lrsquoorigine des chiropters modernesNeues Jahrb Geol Palaontol Abh 182 355ndash376
170 Hand S J amp Kirsch J A W 1998 A southern originfor the Hipposideridae (Microchiroptera) Evidencefrom the Australian fossil record In Bats phylogenymorphology echolocation and conservation biology (edsT H Kunz amp P A Racey) pp 72ndash90 WashingtonDC Smithsonian Institution Press
171 Luo Z-X Ji Q Wible J R amp Yuan X 2003 AnEarly Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metather-
ian evolution Science 302 1934ndash1939 (doi101126science1090718)
172 Martin J E Case J A Jagt J W M Schulp A S ampMulder E W A 2005 A new European marsupial indi-cates a Late Cretaceous high-latitude transatlantic
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
dispersal route J Mamm Evol 12 495ndash511 (doi101007s10914-005-7330-x)
173 Vullo R Gheerbrant E de Muizon C amp Neraudeau
D 2009 The oldest modern therian mammal fromEurope and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeo-graphy Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 19 910ndash19 915
174 Cifelli R L 1990 Cretaceous mammals of SouthernUtah II marsupials and marsupialndashlike mammals
from the Wahweap Formation (Early Campanian)J Vertebr Paleontol 10 320ndash331 (doi10108002724634199010011817)
175 Cifelli R L 1993 Theria of metatherianndasheutherian
grade and the origin of marsupials In Mammal phylo-geny Mesozoic differentiation multituberculatesmonotremes early therians and marsupials vol 1 (edsF S Szalay M J Novacek amp M C McKenna) pp205ndash215 Berlin Germany Springer
176 Cifelli R L 2004 Marsupial mammals from the Albian-Cenomanian (Early-Late Cretaceous) boundary UtahBull Am Mus Nat Hist 285 62ndash79 (doi1012060003-0090(2004)2850062C20CO2)
177 Wible J R 1990 Late Cretaceous marsupial petrosal
bones from North America and a cladistic analysis ofthe petrosal in therian mammals J Vertebr Paleontol10 183ndash205 (doi10108002724634199010011807)
178 Cifelli R L amp de Muizon C 1997 Dentition and jawof Kokopellia juddi a primitive marsupial or near-marsu-
pial from the medial Cretaceous of Utah J MammEvol 4 241ndash258 (doi101023A1027394430433)
179 Case J A Goin F J amp Woodburne M O 2005lsquoSouth Americanrsquo marsupials from the Late Cretaceous
of North America and the origin of marsupial cohortsJ Mamm Evol 11 223ndash255 (doi101023BJOMM00000473393963082)
180 Amrine-Madsen H Scally M Westerman MStanhope M J Krajewski C amp Springer M S
2003 Nuclear gene sequences provide evidence for themonophyly of australidelphian marsupials MolPhylogenet Evol 28 186ndash196 (doi101016S1055-7903(03)00122-2)
181 Beck R M Godthelp H Weisbecker V Archer M
amp Hand S J 2008 Australiarsquos oldest marsupial fossilsand their biogeographical implications PLoS ONE 3e1858 (doi101371journalpone0001858)
182 Springer M S Krajewski C amp Meredith R W 2009Marsupials (Metatheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B
Hedges amp S Kumar) pp 466ndash470 Oxford UKOxford University Press
183 Kirsch J A W Dickerman A W Reig O A ampSpringer M S 1991 DNA hybridization evidence
for the Australasian affinity of the American marsupialDromiciops australis Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 8810 465ndash10 469 (doi101073pnas882310465)
184 Kirsch J A W Lapointe F-J amp Springer M S 1997DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their
implications for metatherian classificationAust J Zool 45 211ndash280 (doi101071ZO96030)
185 Springer M S Westerman M Kavanagh J R BurkA Woodburne M O Kao D amp Krajewski C 1998The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the
phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito delmonte and marsupial mole Proc R Soc Lond B 2652381ndash2386 (doi101098rspb19980587)
186 Nilsson M A Churakov G Sommer M Tran NV Zemann A Brosius J amp Schmitz J 2010 Tracking
marsupial evolution using archaic genomic retroposoninsertions PLoS Biol 8 e1000436 (doi101371jour-nalpbio1000436)
187 Woodburne M O amp Case J A 1996 Dispersal vicar-iance and the Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary land
2502 M S Springer et al Mammalian historical biogeography
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
mammal biogeography from South America to Austra-lia J Mamm Evol 3 121ndash161 (doi101007BF01454359)
188 Rowe T Rich T H VickersndashRich P Springer MS amp Woodburne M O 2008 The oldest platypusand its bearing on divergence timing of the platypusand echidna clades Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1051238ndash1242 (doi101073pnas0706385105)
189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
Sci USA 106 17 089ndash17 094 (doi101073pnas0904649106)
191 Springer M S amp Krajewski C 2009 Monotremes
(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
192 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2001Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals Nature 409
53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
- REFERENCES
-
Mammalian historical biogeography M S Springer et al 2501
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
revised analysis of six nuclear genes from all majorrodent clades BMC Evol Biol 9 71 (doi1011861471-2148-9-71)
157 Hasegawa M Thorne J L amp Kishino H 2003 Timescale of eutherian evolution estimated without assuminga constant rate of molecular evolution Genes Gen Syst78 267ndash283 (doi101266ggs78267)
158 Rowe D L Dunn K A Adkins R M amp Honeycutt
R L 2010 Molecular clocks keep dispersal hypothesesafloat evidence for trans-Atlantic rafting by rodentsJ Biogeogr 7 305ndash324
159 Beard K C Wang B Dawson M Huang X amp
Tong Y 1996 Earliest complete dentition of an anthro-poid primate from the late middle Eocene of ShanxiProvince China Science 272 82ndash85 (doi101126science272525882)
160 Beard K C amp Wang J 2004 The eosimiid primates
(Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation Yuanqu BasinShanxi and Henan Provinces Peoplersquos Republic ofChina J Hum Evol 46 401ndash432 (doi101016jjhevol200401002)
161 Arnason U Gullberg A Schweizer B A amp Janke A
2000 Molecular estimates for primate dispersal and theorigin of modern humans Hereditas 133 217ndash228(doi101111j1601-5223200000217x)
162 Lavocat R 1969 La systematique des rongeurs hystri-comorphes et la derive des continents C R AcadSci Ser D 269 1496ndash1497
163 Hussain S T de Bruijn H amp Leinders J M 1978Middle Eocene rodents from the Kala Chitta Range(Punjab Pakistan) (III) Proc Kon Ned AkadWetensch Ser B 81 101ndash112
164 Wood A E 1985 The relationships origin and disper-sal of the hystricognathous rodents In Evolutionaryrelationships among rodents a multidisciplinary analysis(eds W P Luckett amp J-L Hartenberger) pp 475ndash
513 New York NY Plenum165 Houle A 1999 The origin of platyrrhines an evalu-
ation of the Antarctic scenario and the floating islandmodel Am J Phys Anthropol 109 541ndash559 (doi101002(SICI)1096-8644(199908)1094541AID-
AJPA930CO2-N)166 Tattersall I 2005 Mechanisms of faunal origin and
diversity in island environments the case of Madagas-carrsquos mammals Hellenic J Geosci 41 35ndash46
167 Gunnell G F amp Simmons N B 2005 Fossil evidence
and the origin of bats J Mamm Evol 12 209ndash246(doi101007s10914-005-6945-2)
168 Simmons N B Seymour K L Habersetzer J ampGunnel G F 2008 Primitive early Eocene bat from
Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocationNature 451 818ndash822
169 Sige B 1991 Rhinolophoidae et Vespertilionoidea(Chiroptera) du Chambi (Eocene inferieur de Tunisie)Aspects biostratigraphique biogeographique and
paleoecologique de lrsquoorigine des chiropters modernesNeues Jahrb Geol Palaontol Abh 182 355ndash376
170 Hand S J amp Kirsch J A W 1998 A southern originfor the Hipposideridae (Microchiroptera) Evidencefrom the Australian fossil record In Bats phylogenymorphology echolocation and conservation biology (edsT H Kunz amp P A Racey) pp 72ndash90 WashingtonDC Smithsonian Institution Press
171 Luo Z-X Ji Q Wible J R amp Yuan X 2003 AnEarly Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metather-
ian evolution Science 302 1934ndash1939 (doi101126science1090718)
172 Martin J E Case J A Jagt J W M Schulp A S ampMulder E W A 2005 A new European marsupial indi-cates a Late Cretaceous high-latitude transatlantic
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
dispersal route J Mamm Evol 12 495ndash511 (doi101007s10914-005-7330-x)
173 Vullo R Gheerbrant E de Muizon C amp Neraudeau
D 2009 The oldest modern therian mammal fromEurope and its bearing on stem marsupial paleobiogeo-graphy Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 19 910ndash19 915
174 Cifelli R L 1990 Cretaceous mammals of SouthernUtah II marsupials and marsupialndashlike mammals
from the Wahweap Formation (Early Campanian)J Vertebr Paleontol 10 320ndash331 (doi10108002724634199010011817)
175 Cifelli R L 1993 Theria of metatherianndasheutherian
grade and the origin of marsupials In Mammal phylo-geny Mesozoic differentiation multituberculatesmonotremes early therians and marsupials vol 1 (edsF S Szalay M J Novacek amp M C McKenna) pp205ndash215 Berlin Germany Springer
176 Cifelli R L 2004 Marsupial mammals from the Albian-Cenomanian (Early-Late Cretaceous) boundary UtahBull Am Mus Nat Hist 285 62ndash79 (doi1012060003-0090(2004)2850062C20CO2)
177 Wible J R 1990 Late Cretaceous marsupial petrosal
bones from North America and a cladistic analysis ofthe petrosal in therian mammals J Vertebr Paleontol10 183ndash205 (doi10108002724634199010011807)
178 Cifelli R L amp de Muizon C 1997 Dentition and jawof Kokopellia juddi a primitive marsupial or near-marsu-
pial from the medial Cretaceous of Utah J MammEvol 4 241ndash258 (doi101023A1027394430433)
179 Case J A Goin F J amp Woodburne M O 2005lsquoSouth Americanrsquo marsupials from the Late Cretaceous
of North America and the origin of marsupial cohortsJ Mamm Evol 11 223ndash255 (doi101023BJOMM00000473393963082)
180 Amrine-Madsen H Scally M Westerman MStanhope M J Krajewski C amp Springer M S
2003 Nuclear gene sequences provide evidence for themonophyly of australidelphian marsupials MolPhylogenet Evol 28 186ndash196 (doi101016S1055-7903(03)00122-2)
181 Beck R M Godthelp H Weisbecker V Archer M
amp Hand S J 2008 Australiarsquos oldest marsupial fossilsand their biogeographical implications PLoS ONE 3e1858 (doi101371journalpone0001858)
182 Springer M S Krajewski C amp Meredith R W 2009Marsupials (Metatheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B
Hedges amp S Kumar) pp 466ndash470 Oxford UKOxford University Press
183 Kirsch J A W Dickerman A W Reig O A ampSpringer M S 1991 DNA hybridization evidence
for the Australasian affinity of the American marsupialDromiciops australis Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 8810 465ndash10 469 (doi101073pnas882310465)
184 Kirsch J A W Lapointe F-J amp Springer M S 1997DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their
implications for metatherian classificationAust J Zool 45 211ndash280 (doi101071ZO96030)
185 Springer M S Westerman M Kavanagh J R BurkA Woodburne M O Kao D amp Krajewski C 1998The origin of the Australasian marsupial fauna and the
phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic monito delmonte and marsupial mole Proc R Soc Lond B 2652381ndash2386 (doi101098rspb19980587)
186 Nilsson M A Churakov G Sommer M Tran NV Zemann A Brosius J amp Schmitz J 2010 Tracking
marsupial evolution using archaic genomic retroposoninsertions PLoS Biol 8 e1000436 (doi101371jour-nalpbio1000436)
187 Woodburne M O amp Case J A 1996 Dispersal vicar-iance and the Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary land
2502 M S Springer et al Mammalian historical biogeography
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
mammal biogeography from South America to Austra-lia J Mamm Evol 3 121ndash161 (doi101007BF01454359)
188 Rowe T Rich T H VickersndashRich P Springer MS amp Woodburne M O 2008 The oldest platypusand its bearing on divergence timing of the platypusand echidna clades Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1051238ndash1242 (doi101073pnas0706385105)
189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
Sci USA 106 17 089ndash17 094 (doi101073pnas0904649106)
191 Springer M S amp Krajewski C 2009 Monotremes
(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
192 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2001Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals Nature 409
53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
- REFERENCES
-
2502 M S Springer et al Mammalian historical biogeography
on October 29 2012rstbroyalsocietypublishingorgDownloaded from
mammal biogeography from South America to Austra-lia J Mamm Evol 3 121ndash161 (doi101007BF01454359)
188 Rowe T Rich T H VickersndashRich P Springer MS amp Woodburne M O 2008 The oldest platypusand its bearing on divergence timing of the platypusand echidna clades Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1051238ndash1242 (doi101073pnas0706385105)
189 Woodburne M O Rich T H amp Springer M S 2003The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mam-malian clades Mol Phylogenet Evol 28 360ndash385(doi101016S1055-7903(03)00113-1)
190 Phillips M J Bennetta T H amp Lee M S Y 2009Molecules morphology and ecology indicate a recentamphibious ancestry for echidnas Proc Natl Acad
Phil Trans R Soc B (2011)
Sci USA 106 17 089ndash17 094 (doi101073pnas0904649106)
191 Springer M S amp Krajewski C 2009 Monotremes
(Prototheria) In The timetree of life (eds S B Hedges ampS Kumar) pp 462ndash465 Oxford UK OxfordUniversity Press
192 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2001Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals Nature 409
53ndash57 (doi10103835051023)193 Luo Z-X Cifelli R L amp Kielan-Jaworowska Z 2002
In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals ActaPalaeont Polon 47 1ndash78
194 Kielan-Jaworowska Z Cifelli R L amp Luo X 2004Mammals from the age of dinosaursmdashorigins evolutionand structure New York NY Columbia University Press
- The historical biogeography of Mammalia
-
- Introduction
- Phylogeny reconstruction
- Molecular dating analyses
- Ancestral area reconstruction
- Box 1
- Ancestral area chronograms and palaeogeography
- Placental phylogeny and a comparison of different ancestral area reconstruction methods
- Placental biogeography
- The importance of dispersal
- Bat biogeography
- Marsupial biogeography
- Monotreme biogeography
- Conclusions
- MSS and WJM acknowledge support from NSF Three anonymous reviewers provided helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript We thank Kate Jones for inviting us to contribute to this volume
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