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Reconstructing the Evolution of North American Gomphotheres (Mammalia, Proboscidea) through Craniomandibular Characters [PDF]
The family Gomphotheriidae is the “waste basket” of proboscidean groups. Widely accepted as paraphyletic, gomphotheres are characterized by bunolophodont molars and extreme morphological variability.
Hunter-Moffatt, Blue Margaux Louise
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Diversity of the fossil gomphotheres from South America [PDF]
Historical Biology, 2022 The contemporary mammalian communities of South America were defined by the rise of the Isthmus of Panama and by the deep climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene. Gomphotheres are a conspicuous group of North American immigrant mammals that came to South America during the late Pliocene and did not survive the great megafauna extinction ...
María T. Alberdi, José L. Prado
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Did the climate changes cause the extinction of the Late Pleistocene gomphotheres in South America? [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba)A global wave of megafauna extinctions occurred between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, impacting numerous large continental mammals that are crucial to ecosystem dynamics.
Evelyn N.S. Cruz +2 more
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A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Kruševac basin in Central Serbia [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2018 Elephantoid cheek teeth from the late Early and Middle Miocene of Europe frequently display mixtures of bunodont and zygodont features, making their taxonomical attributions difficult and subjective.
Radović Predrag +1 more
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Revista Geológica de América Central, 2011 In 1858, American geologist Joseph LeConte published the first scientific report of vertebrate fossils (mastodon, bison and horse) from Central America a brief record of a "mastodon bed" near the old village of Tambla in Honduras. In 1859, American archaeologist Ephraim George Squier also mentioned these fossils, illustrating a lower jaw fragment with ...
S. Lucas +3 more
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Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Cerrado: Network structure and defaunation effects
Biotropica, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 849-865, July 2023., 2023 We investigated the Cerrado seed dispersal network and the potential impacts of defaunation on it by performing a systematic literature review. The Cerrado network has a heterogeneous structure, slightly nested and considerably modular, and is dominated by generalist species.
Rodrigo Béllo Carvalho +2 more
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Empirical examples demonstrate how relational thinking might enrich science and practice
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 2, Page 455-469, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Interdependent relationships among humans and nature often go overlooked, delaying better environmental, social and public health outcomes. Emerging approaches have emphasized thinking through relationships, which we call ‘relational thinking’. Threads of relational thinking have matured in areas such as anthropology and Indigenous scholarship,
Harold N. Eyster +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 12, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Enamel hypoplasia is a tooth marker of ecological abnormality which can also be used in fossil animals to evaluate the likelihood of extinctions. The Siwalik paleoenvironment is being tried to assess by using teeth of the fossil proboscideans. Abstract Climate affects living ecosystems and defines species physiology.
Muhammad Ameen +4 more
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 305, Issue 10, Page 2729-2765, October 2022., 2022 Abstract We describe two new osteolaemine crocodylids from the Early and early Middle Miocene of Kenya: Kinyang mabokoensis tax. nov. (Maboko, 15 Ma) and Kinyang tchernovi tax. nov. (Karungu and Loperot, 18 Ma). Additional material referable to Kinyang is known from Chianda and Moruorot. The skull was broad and dorsoventrally deep, and the genus can be
Christopher A. Brochu +13 more
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Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 8, Issue 5, September/October 2022., 2022 Abstract We describe the most complete postcranial remains of a pathological, large‐bodied sabretooth from the Lower Pliocene site of Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry (South Africa). The skeleton consists of hind limb and vertebral elements that exhibit distinctive exostoses, osteophytes and eburnation.
Caitlin Rabe +3 more
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