Mistake noted in Asher, 2005 (chapter 5 in The Rise
of Placental Mammals: Origin and
Relationships of the Major Clades):
Specimens of golden moles recently observed by the author
at the NHM
London, including representatives of Chrysospalax, Chlorotalpa, and
Amblysomus, preserve sutures clearly defining the contribution of the
maxilla in the medial orbital wall. Although this element does
not separate the orbital contributions of the palatine and frontal, it
does make a sizable contribution to the orbital mosaic. Hence,
contrary to my implication in the text, this feature does indeed
resemble the condition seen in northern insectivorans and most
tenrecids. I should not have attributed the sentiment that
chrysochlorids lack a maxillary incursion into the orbital mosaic to
MacPhee and Novacek (1993: p. 18 and their fig. 3.6), who correctly
noted only that the palatine often shows contact with the frontal in
this group.