McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie

12 publications

McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1956Survival of primitive notoungulates and condylarths into the Miocene of Colombia.
Amer. Jour. Sci. 254: 736-743. 2 figs. Dec. 1956.
—P. 739, note: {"Stirton (1947) has described a new genus, Lophiodolodus, from the Oligocene Chaparral fauna, found near Tolima, Colombia, comparing it with the didolodonts. I suspect that Lophiodolodus is a sirenian; for this reason the genus does not enter into the present discussion."}
McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1969The origin and early differentiation of therian mammals.
Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 167(1): 217-224.
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McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1975Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia. In: W. P. Luckett & F. S. Szalay (eds.), Phylogeny of the primates.
New York & London, Plenum Publ. Corp.: 21-46. 3 figs. Dec. 1975.
—Introduces the taxon Tethytheria with the rank of "mirorder" to include the Sirenia, Desmostylia, and Proboscidea, and discusses the cladistic relationships of these orders with other mammals.
McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1980Early history and biogeography of South America's extinct land mammals. In: R. L. Ciochon & A. B. Chiarelli (eds.), Evolutionary biology of New World monkeys and continental drift.
New York, Plenum Publ. Corp.: 43-77.
—Suggests that Florentinoameghinia and Lophiodolodus are both sirs. (66).
Domning, Daryl Paul; Ray, Clayton Edward; McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1986Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics.
Smithson. Contrib. Paleobiol. No. 59: iii + 56. 23 figs. May 28, 1986.
—Describes Behemotops, n.gen. (6), B. proteus (6) and B. emlongi (23), n.spp. from Washington and Oregon, respectively, as the most primitive known desmostylians. Reviews at length the history of desmostylian and tethytherian systematics, and presents a cladistic analysis of the Tethytheria (36-38), concluding that the Desmostylia and Proboscidea are sister-groups whose next closest relatives are the Sirenia. Moeritherium, Anthracobune, and Minchenella are also discussed in detail (38-45); the latter is considered a possible ancestor of both Proboscidea and Desmostylia. Desmostylians are regarded as herbivores that fed intertidally and subtidally (47-48). urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:39E15956-FB66-41FB-A440-29DC05DD83DA
Wyss, André R.; Novacek, Michael J.; McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1987Amino acid sequence versus morphological data and the interordinal relationships of mammals.
Molec. Biol. Evol. 4(2): 99-116. 3 figs.
—Morphology and alpha crystallin A sequences both support the close alliance of Hyracoidea, Sirenia, and Proboscidea, but within this grouping they suggest the associations of Sirenia + Proboscidea and Sirenia + Hyracoidea, respectively (104-107, 113).
McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1987Molecular and morphological analysis of high-level mammalian interrelationships. In: C. Patterson (ed.), Molecules and morphology in evolution: conflict or compromise?
Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press: 55-93. 2 tabs. 7 figs.
—Summarizes the evidence tending to place sirs. and desmostylians together with other "paenungulates" in a very early, probably Cretaceous, side-branch of the Eutheria (61-63, 70-71, 79-82).
Novacek, Michael J.; Wyss, André R.; McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1988The major groups of eutherian mammals. In: M. J. Benton (ed.), The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods, Volume 2: Mammals.
Systematics Assoc. Special Vol. No. 35B: 31-71. 4 tabs. 5 figs.
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McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1992The alpha crystallin A chain of the eye lens and mammalian phylogeny. In: A. Forstén, M. Fortelius, & L. Werdelin (eds.), Björn Kurtén - a memorial volume.
Ann. Zool. Fennici 28(3-4): 349-360. 2 tabs. 1 fig. Feb. 19, 1992.
—Presents a new cladogram based on eye-lens protein sequence data, showing Trichechus closest to hyracoids and tubulidentates and farther from elephants (350, 354-355, 357).
Ray, Clayton Edward; Domning, Daryl Paul; McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1994A new specimen of Behemotops proteus (Mammalia: Desmostylia) from the marine Oligocene of Washington. In: A. Berta & T. A. Deméré (eds.), Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.
Proc. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. 29: 205-222. 1 tab. 15 figs. May 1, 1994.
—Revs.: S. A. McLeod, Jour. Vert. Pal. 16(1): 183-185, Mar. 19, 1996; J. E. Heyning, Mar. Mamm. Sci. 12(2): 326-329, "Apr. 1996" (publ. Mar. 29, 1996). A new specimen including both upper and lower teeth, from the middle or upper Oligocene, confirms the close similarity of Behemotops to Eocene anthracobunids of Asia. B. emlongi is synonymized with B. proteus, and the dentition of the latter is reinterpreted.
McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie; Bell, Susan K. (detail)
1997Classification of mammals above the species level.
New York, Columbia Univ. Press: xii + 631. 1 fig.
—Introduces a new, cladistically-based classification in which the Sirenia and Desmostylia are radically demoted in taxonomic rank. A new Order Uranotheria includes the suborders Hyracoidea, Embrithopoda, and Tethytheria; the latter includes the infraorders Sirenia and Behemota (new); and the Behemota comprises the parvorders Desmostylia and Proboscidea (490-497).
Shoshani, Jeheskel; McKenna, Malcolm Carnegie (detail)
1998Higher taxonomic relationships among extant mammals based on morphology, with selected comparisons of results from molecular data.
Molec. Phylog. Evol. 9(3): 572-584. June 1998.
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