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Date: | 2021 |
Abstract: | We describe small-sized specimens of the metailurine felid Dinofelis from a new Plio-Pleistocene site in North Africa. Dinofelis is a genus of saber-toothed cats mainly recorded from East and South Africa with numerous leopard to jaguar-sized species. The described specimens, clearly smaller than all the other African Dinofelis, resemble isolated remains from the Late Pliocene of France and the Early Pleistocene of Africa. Present evidence suggests that our form represents a new species and/or new lineage of Dinofelis, smaller and probably occupying a different ecological niche compared to the previously known members of the genus, and thus it adds complexity to the high intraspecific competition among large carnivorans in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. |
Grants: | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CGL2016-80975-P Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CGL2016-80000-P Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PGC2018-095489-B-I00 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PGC2018-093925-B-C31 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CGL2017-82654-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-836 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-859 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-116 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1040 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación IJC-037447-I Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000945-M |
Note: | Altres ajuts: MCD/42-T002018N0000042853 |
Note: | Altres ajuts: MCD/170-T002019N0000038589 |
Rights: | Tots els drets reservats. |
Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
Subject: | North africa ; Morocco ; Plio-Pleistocene ; Carnivora ; Felidae ; Machairodontinae ; Dinofelis |
Published in: | Quaternary science reviews, Vol. 265 (August 2021) , art. 107028, ISSN 1873-457X |
Postprint 36 p, 6.6 MB |