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18 p, 6.4 MB |
Insular giant leporid matured later than predicted by scaling
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Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Nacarino-Meneses, Carmen (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Quintana Cardona, Josep (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Arnold, Walter (University of Veterinary Medicine. Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences) ;
Stalder, Gabrielle (University of Veterinary Medicine. Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences) ;
Suchentrunk, Franz (University of Veterinary Medicine. Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences) ;
Moyà Solà, Salvador (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
The island syndrome describes morphological, behavioral, and life history traits that evolve in parallel in endemic insular organisms. A basic axiom of the island syndrome is that insular endemics slow down their pace of life. [...] We tested this question in the fossil insular giant leporid Nuralagus rex. Using bone histology, we constructed both a continental extant taxon model derived from experimentally fluorochrome-labeled Lepus europaeus to calibrate life history events, and a growth model for the insular taxon. [...]
2023 - 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107654
iScience, Vol. 26, Issue 9 (September 2023) , art. 107654
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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 1992- (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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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, Vol. 34, Issue 8(2022) , p. 1642-1659
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Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant
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Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Herridge, Victoria (Natural History Museum. Earth Sciences) ;
Nacarino-Meneses, Carmen (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Fortuny, Josep (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Moncunill Solé, Blanca (Universidade da Coruña. Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas) ;
Rosso, Antonietta (Università di Catania. Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali) ;
Sanfilippo, Rossana (Università di Catania. Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali) ;
Palombo, Maria Rita (Sapienza University of Rome. c7o Earth Science Department) ;
Moyà Solà, Salvador (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
The 1-m-tall dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon falconeri from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) is an extreme example of insular dwarfism and epitomizes the Island Rule. Based on scaling of life-history (LH) traits with body mass, P. [...]
2021 - 10.1038/s41598-021-02192-4
Scientific reports, Vol. 11 (November 2021) , art. 22862
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Labelling experiments in red deer provide a general model for early bone growth dynamics in ruminants
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Calderón Sánchez, Teresa (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Arnold, Walter (University of Veterinary Medicine. Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (Austria)) ;
Stalder, Gabrielle (University of Veterinary Medicine. Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (Austria)) ;
Painer, Johanna (University of Veterinary Medicine. Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (Austria)) ;
Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Growth rates importantly determine developmental time and are, therefore, a key variable of a species' life history. A widely used method to reconstruct growth rates and to estimate age at death in extant and particularly in fossil vertebrates is the analysis of bone tissue apposition rates. [...]
2021 - 10.1038/s41598-021-93547-4
Scientific reports, Vol. 11 (July 2021) , art. 14074
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Limb bone histology records birth in mammals
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Nacarino-Meneses, Carmen (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
The annual cyclicality of cortical bone growth marks (BGMs) allows reconstruction of some important life history traits, such as longevity, growth rate or age at maturity. Little attention has been paid, however, to non-cyclical BGMs, though some record key life history events such as hatching (egg-laying vertebrates), metamorphosis (amphibians), or weaning (suggested for Microcebus and the hedgehog). [...]
2018 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0198511
PloS one, Vol. 13, Issue 6 (June 2018) , p. e0198511
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Ontogeny and taxonomy of the hadrosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) remains from Basturs Poble bonebed (late early Maastrichtian, Tremp Syncline, Spain)
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Fondevilla Moreu, Víctor (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Dalla Vecchia, Fabio (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Gaete Harzenetter, Rodrigo (Museu de la Conca Dellà (Isona, Catalunya)) ;
Galobart, Àngel (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Moncunill Solé, Blanca (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Kohler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Departament de Geologia
The lower Maastrichtian site of Basturs Poble (southern Pyrenees, Spain) is the first hadrosaur bonebed reported from Europe. It is an accumulation of disarticulated lambeosaurine skeletal elements, possibly belonging to Pararhabdodon isonensis. [...]
2018 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0206287
PloS one, Vol. 13, Issue 10 (October 2018) , p. e0206287
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Dental histology of late Miocene hipparionins compared with extant Equus, and its implications for Equidae life history
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Orlandi Oliveras, Guillem 1992- (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Nacarino-Meneses, Carmen (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Köhler, Meike (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont) ;
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Hipparionins were a dominant element of the late Miocene faunas of Europe; however, their biology and ecology remain incompletely understood. In this paper, we explore the pace of life history of different-sized hipparionin horses, using dental histology, and compare it with extant equids. [...]
2019 - 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.04.016
Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, Vol. 528 (August 2019) , p. 133-146
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