A macroevolutionary pathway to megaherbivory

O Sanisidro, MC Mihlbachler, JL Cantalapiedra - Science, 2023 - science.org
Several scenarios have been proposed to explain rapid net size increases in some early
Cenozoic mammalian lineages: sustained and gradual directional change, successive …

How many sabertooths? Reevaluating the number of carnivoran sabretooth lineages with total-evidence Bayesian techniques and a novel origin of the Miocene …

PZ Barrett, SSB Hopkins, SA Price - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Sabertooth craniodental adaptations have evolved numerous times amongst carnivorous
mammals. Some of the most extreme sabertooth adaptations are found within the carnivoran …

First nimravid skull from Asia

A Averianov, E Obraztsova, I Danilov, P Skutschas… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Maofelis cantonensis gen. and sp. nov. is described based on a complete cranium from the
middle-upper Eocene Youganwo Formation of Maoming Basin, Guangdong Province …

Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world

S Tomiya, SP Zack, M Spaulding, JJ Flynn - Journal of Paleontology, 2021 - cambridge.org
The middle Eocene Washakie Formation of Wyoming, USA, provides a rare window, within a
single depositional basin, into the faunal transition that followed the early Eocene warming …

New early aeluroid carnivoran (Mammalia, Carnivora, Feliformia) from the classical palaeontological locality Valeč, the Czech Republic

L De Bonis, B Ekrt, L Kunstmüllerová, K Martínek… - Geodiversitas, 2024 - BioOne
During the field work in 2017, a left carnivoran hemi-mandible was found at the locality
Valeč-Šibeniční Vrch (= Waltsch-Galgenberg), the Czech Republic. Valeč-Šibeniční Vrch is …

An early nimravid from California and the rise of hypercarnivorous mammals after the middle Eocene climatic optimum

AW Poust, PZ Barrett, S Tomiya - Biology Letters, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Carnivoraforms (crown carnivorans and their closest relatives) first occupied
hypercarnivorous niches near the dawn of the late Eocene, 40–37 Ma. This followed the …

A review of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic mammals of Mongolia

AV Lopatin - Paleontological Journal, 2020 - Springer
In Mongolia, fossil mammals are known from the Upper Jurassic, Lower and Upper
Cretaceous, all series of the Paleogene and Neogene, as well as the Pleistocene. Over 335 …

[PDF][PDF] A brief review of the updated fossil vertebrate fauna of the upper Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation, southeastern Mongolia

T TSUBAMOTO, K TSOGTBAATAR… - 愛媛大学理学部 …, 2022 - ehime-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
We briefly review the fossil vertebrate fauna of the upper Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation of
southeastern Mongolia. The Ergilin Dzo vertebrate fauna currently consists of 104 species of …

Study of the Taxonomy of Carnivores from the Eocene-Oligocene of the Quercy Area, France

J van der Hoek - 2021 - diva-portal.org
The Quercy area of France is an important site for mammal palaeontology, yet 19th century
collections of this area, such as the one in the Department of Palaeobiology, Naturhistoriska …

Discovery of a crocodyliform tooth from the upper Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation, Mongolia

M Iijima, T Tsubamoto, K Tsogtbaatar… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2019 - agro.icm.edu.pl
Although the distribution of Asian crocodyliforms was extended northwards during the
Paleocene–Eocene greenhouse world, the fossil record in northern Asia becomes scarce …