This paleomammalogy list records new fossil

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...

taxa that were described during the year 2012, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.

Non-eutherian mammals

Eutherians

Research

* A phylogenetic analysis of living and fossil members of

Carnivoramorpha Carnivoramorpha ("carnivoran-like forms") is a clade of placental mammals that includes the modern order Carnivora and its extinct stem-relatives.Bryant, H.N., and M. Wolson (2004“Phylogenetic Nomenclature of Carnivoran Mammals.”''First Inter ...

is published by Michelle Spaulding and John J. Flynn (2012). * A study of fossil giant deers is published by I. A. Vislobokova (2012). * A study of the anatomy of skull and teeth of the

proboscidea The Proboscidea (; , ) are a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by J. Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close relatives. From ...

n '' Eritherium azzouzorum'' is published by Emmanuel Gheerbrant, Baadi Bouya and Mbarek Amaghzaz (2012).

New taxa

References

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