2022-05-10 07:24 |
31 p, 7.0 MB |
Feeding habits of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from Germany and palaeoecological implications for archosaurs
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Mujal, Eudald (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Foth, Christian (University of Fribourg. Department of Geosciences) ;
Maxwell, Erin (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart) ;
Seegis, Dieter (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart) ;
Schoch, Rainer (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart)
Bite traces on fossil bones are key to deciphering feeding ecology and trophic interactions of vertebrate past ecosystems. However, similarities between traces produced by different carnivorous taxa with similar dentitions, and misidentifications due to equifinality, hinder confident identifications of the bite makers. [...]
2022 - 10.1111/pala.12597
Palaeontology, Vol. 65, Issue 3 (May 2022) , art. e12597
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2022-05-03 11:26 |
41 p, 3.5 MB |
The Jurassic rise of squamates as supported by lepidosaur disparity and evolutionary rates
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Bolet, Arnau (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Stubbs, Thomas (University of Bristol. School of Earth Sciences) ;
Herrara-Flores, Jorge (University of Bristol. School of Earth Sciences) ;
Michael Benton, Michael (University of Bristol. School of Earth Sciences)
The squamates (lizards, snakes, and relatives) today comprise more than 10,000 species, and yet their sister group, the Rhynchocephalia, is represented by a single species today, the tuatara. The explosion in squamate diversity has been tracked back to the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, 100 million years ago (Ma), the time when flowering plants began their takeover of terrestrial ecosystems, associated with diversification of coevolving insects and insect-eating predators such as lizards, birds, and mammals. [...]
2022 - 10.7554/eLife.66511
eLife, Vol. 11 (May 2022) , art. e66511
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2022-04-29 08:19 |
45 p, 44.9 MB |
Feeding strategies of circum-Mediterranean hipparionins during the late Miocene: Exploring dietary preferences related to size through dental microwear analysis
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Orlandi Oliveras, Guillem (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Clavel, Julien (Université Claude Bernard Lyon) ;
Scott, Robert S. (The State University of New Jersey. Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Evolutionary Studies) ;
Mayda, Serdar (Ege University. Department of Biology) ;
Kaya, Tanju ;
Merceron, Gildas (University of Poitiers)
The adaptive radiation of hipparionins after their Old World dispersal was linked with a trend towards smaller body sizes. The appearance of the small-sized forms has usually been associated to open environments and grazing diets. [...]
2022 - 10.26879/990
Palaeontologia Electronica, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (April 2022) , art. 13
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2022-04-25 09:08 |
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Ebusia moralesi n. gen. nov. sp, a new endemic caprine (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Neogene of Eivissa Island (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean) : evolutionary implications
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Moyà Solà, Salvador (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Quintana Cardona, Josep (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
We describe the first endemic large mammal from the Neogene of the Island Eivissa (Balearic Islands, Spain), a new genus and species of an endemic insular bovid, Ebusia n. gen. moralesi n. sp. (Artiodactyla, Caprini). [...]
2022 - 10.1080/08912963.2022.2060099
Historical Biology, (April 2022)
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2022-04-21 07:52 |
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2022-04-19 08:33 |
7 p, 1.5 MB |
A high-quality, long-read genome assembly of the endangered ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
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Palmada-Flores, Marc (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) (Barcelona)) ;
Orkin, Joseph (Université de Montréal. Département d'anthropologie) ;
Haase, Bettina (The Rockefeller University. Vertebrate Genome Lab (USA)) ;
Mountcastle, Jacquelyn (The Rockefeller University. Vertebrate Genome Lab (USA)) ;
Bertelsen, Mads (University of Copenhagen. Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences) ;
Fedrigo, Olivier (The Rockefeller University. Vertebrate Genome Lab (USA)) ;
Kuderna, Lukas (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) (Barcelona)) ;
Jarvis, Erich D. (The Rockefeller University. Vertebrate Genome Lab (USA)) ;
Marques-Bonet, Tomas (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Background: The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a charismatic strepsirrhine primate endemic to Madagascar. These lemurs are of particular interest, given their status as a flagship species and widespread publicity in the popular media. [...]
2022 - 10.1093/gigascience/giac026
GigaScience, Vol. 11, Num. 1 (April 2022) , art. giac026
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2022-04-05 10:18 |
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A reappraisal of the Border Cave 1 cranium (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
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Beaudet, Amélie (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
D'Errico, Francesco (Université Bordeaux. UMR 5199 CNRS De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel) ;
Backwell, Lucinda (University of the Witwatersrand. Evolutionary Studies Institute (South Africa)) ;
Wadley, Lyn (University of the Witwatersrand. Evolutionary Studies Institute (South Africa)) ;
Zipfel, Bernhard (University of the Witwatersrand. Evolutionary Studies Institute (South Africa)) ;
Peña, Paloma de la (University of Cambridge. McDonald Archaeological Research Institute) ;
Reyes-Centeno, Hugo (University of Kentucky. Department of Anthropology)
Besides providing a unique archaeological assemblage that documents the early emergence of complex behaviour in the human lineage, Border Cave (South Africa) is noteworthy for having yielded hominin remains of at least nine individuals, including the partial cranium Border Cave 1. [...]
2022 - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107452
Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 282 (April 2022) , art. 107452
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2022-04-05 09:44 |
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Insights from the rescue and breeding management of Cuvier's gazelle (Gazella cuvieri) through whole-genome sequencing
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Alvarez-Estape, Marina (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) (Barcelona)) ;
Fontsere, Claudia (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) (Barcelona)) ;
Serres-Armero, Aitor (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) (Barcelona)) ;
Kuderna, Lukas (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) (Barcelona)) ;
Dobrynin, Pavel (ITMO University. Computer Technologies Laboratory) ;
Guidara, Héla (Direction Générale des Forêts (Tunisia)) ;
Pukazhenthi, Budhan S. (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute) ;
Koepfli, Klaus-Peter (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute) ;
Marques-Bonet, Tomas (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Moreno, Eulalia (Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas-CSIC. Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva) ;
Lizano, Esther (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Captive breeding programmes represent the most intensive type of ex situ population management for threatened species. One example is the Cuvier's gazelle programme that started in 1975 with only four founding individuals, and after more than four decades of management in captivity, a reintroduction effort was undertaken in Tunisia in 2016, to establish a population in an area historically included within its range. [...]
2022 - 10.1111/eva.13336
Evolutionary applications, Vol. 15, Issue 3 (March 2022) , p. 351-364
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