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1. Palaeontological description of Nizhneirginsky Grotto Upper Holocene sediments (Ufa Plateau, Fore-Urals) with taphonomic and palaeoenvironmental remarks based on bird and small-mammal assemblages

Author:
Izvarin, Evgeny P.; Ulitko, Anatoly I.; Nekrasov, Aleksey E.
Source:
Quaternary international 2020 v.546 pp. 160-169
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Bubo bubo; Carnivora; Chiroptera; Holocene epoch; Ochotona pusilla; Pleistocene epoch; Sicista; birds; bones; broadleaved trees; fauna; fossils; habitats; landscapes; mice; palaeogeography; paleoecology; predation; river valleys; rivers; sediments; small mammals; woodlands
Abstract:
... Mammal and bird bone remains from Upper Holocene sediments at the Nizhneirginsky Grotto were studied. Nizhneirginsky Grotto is located in the northern part of the Ufa Plateau in the Middle Fore-Urals. The sequence of deposits contains three layers which have been accumulating during the last 4150 years. Identified mammal elements include 9839 bone remains of 29 species belonging to five orders, i. ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2019.11.043

2. Big brains reduce extinction risk in Carnivora

Author:
Abelson, Eric S.
Source:
Oecologia 2019 v.191 no.4 pp. 721-729
ISSN:
0029-8549
Subject:
Carnivora; body size; brain; extinction; fossils; life history; mammals; models; phylogeny; risk; wildlife
Abstract:
... Why are some mammals more vulnerable to extinction than others? Past studies have explored many life history traits as correlates of extinction, but have not been successful at developing a unified understanding of why some species become extinct while other species persist despite living at the same time, under similar conditions, and facing equivalent challenges. I propose that the lens of wildl ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00442-019-04527-5

3. Estimating Age-Dependent Extinction: Contrasting Evidence from Fossils and Phylogenies

Author:
Hagen, Oskar; Andermann, Tobias; Quental, Tiago B; Antonelli, Alexandre; Silvestro, Daniele; Alfaro, Michael
Source:
Systematic biology 2018 v.67 no.3 pp. 458-474
ISSN:
1076-836X
Subject:
Bayesian theory; Carnivora; data collection; extinction; fossils; longevity; phylogeny; probability; survival rate
Abstract:
... The estimation of diversification rates is one of the most vividly debated topics in modern systematics, with considerable controversy surrounding the power of phylogenetic and fossil-based approaches in estimating extinction. Van Valen’s seminal work from 1973 proposed the “Law of constant extinction,” which states that the probability of extinction of taxa is not dependent on their age. This ass ...
DOI:
10.1093/sysbio/syx082
PubMed:
29069434
PubMed Central:
PMC5920349

4. Dispersal is a major driver of the latitudinal diversity gradient of Carnivora

Author:
Rolland, Jonathan; Condamine, Fabien L.; Beeravolu, Champak R.; Jiguet, Frédéric; Morlon, Hélène
Source:
Global ecology and biogeography 2015 v.24 no.9 pp. 1059-1071
ISSN:
1466-822X
Subject:
Carnivora; biogeography; data collection; extinction; fossils; latitude; mammals; models; phylogeny; species diversity; temperate zones; tropics; Africa; Central Asia; China; India; South America; South East Asia
Abstract:
... AIM: Understanding the relative contribution of diversification rates (speciation and extinction) and dispersal in the formation of the latitudinal diversity gradient – the decrease in species richness with increasing latitude – is a main goal of biogeography. The mammalian order Carnivora, which comprises 286 species, displays the traditional latitudinal diversity gradient seen in almost all mamm ...
DOI:
10.1111/geb.12354

5. CT scanning analysis of Megantereon whitei (Carnivora, Machairodontinae) from Monte Argentario (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): evidence of atavistic teeth

Author:
Iurino, Dawid Adam; Sardella, Raffaele
Source:
Naturwissenschaften 2014 v.101 no.12 pp. 1099-1106
ISSN:
0028-1042
Subject:
Carnivora; bones; fossils; karsts; skeleton; teeth; vertebrates; Italy
Abstract:
... CT scanning analysis applied to vertebrate palaeontology is providing an increasing number of data of great interest. This method can be used in many branches of palaeontology such as the investigation of all the fossilized elements in a hard matrix and the hidden structures in the bones. A large number of pathologies are “hidden”, completely or partially invisible on the external surface of the b ...
DOI:
10.1007/s00114-014-1249-0

6. Plio-Pleistocene fossil record of large predators in Iberia: Diversity, home range and climatic change

Author:
Prado, José L.; Azanza, Beatriz; Cantalapiedra, Juan L.; Alberdi, María T.
Source:
Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology 2014 v.399 pp. 404-413
ISSN:
0031-0182
Subject:
Carnivora; carnivores; climate change; databases; fauna; fossils; home range; predators; taxonomic revisions; Iberian Peninsula
Abstract:
... We investigated the patterns of change in diversity and home range-size structure of the latest Miocene–Pleistocene Iberian carnivores to recognize the tempo and mode of the major shifts, and place them in the context of late Cenozoic climatic changes. The database consists of 36 selected and taxonomically revised faunal lists. A general pattern of carnivore diversity from Iberia shows three maxim ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.02.023

7. Combining multiple autosomal introns for studying shallow phylogeny and taxonomy of Laurasiatherian mammals: Application to the tribe Bovini (Cetartiodactyla, Bovidae)

Author:
Hassanin, Alexandre; An, Junghwa; Ropiquet, Anne; Nguyen, Trung Thanh; Couloux, Arnaud
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2013 v.66 no.3 pp. 766-775
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
buffaloes; Bos; mitochondrial DNA; nucleotides; phylogeny; Chiroptera; Perissodactyla; Syncerus caffer; data collection; yaks; introns; introgression; fossils; cattle; Carnivora; polymerase chain reaction; species identification; loci; Bison bonasus; bison
Abstract:
... Mitochondrial sequences are widely used for species identification and for studying phylogenetic relationships among closely related species or populations of the same species. However, many studies of mammals have shown that the maternal history of the mitochondrial genome can be discordant with the true evolutionary history of the taxa. In such cases, the analyses of multiple nuclear genes can b ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.003
PubMed:
23159894

8. The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesis

Author:
Bacon, Anne-Marie; Duringer, Philippe; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Demeter, Fabrice; Shackelford, Laura; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa; Sichanthongtip, Phonephan; Khamdalavong, Phimmasaeng; Nokhamaomphu, Sengphet; Sysuphanh, Vong; Patole-Edoumba, Elise; Chabaux, François; Pelt, Eric
Source:
Quaternary international 2011 v.245 no.2 pp. 315-332
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Artiodactyla; Carnivora; Perissodactyla; Primates; Rodentia; fauna; fossils; mammals; teeth; Laos
Abstract:
... New fossil material was recovered at Tam Hang during the second fieldwork season conducted in 2007, by a Lao-French-American team. The Tam Hang site is located in northern Laos, in the Hua Pan province, about 260 km from Vientiane. The breccias of the Tam Hang South locality produced 404 new fossil specimens which complete the previous material recovered in 2003. The fossiliferous deposits are des ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2010.11.024