Old world hipparion evolution, biogeography, climatology and ecology

RL Bernor, F Kaya, A Kaakinen, J Saarinen… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nearly five decades ago Berggren and Van Couvering proposed an Old World “Hipparion
Datum” wherein a North American Hipparion extended its range across Eurasia and Africa …

Mammal biochronology (Land Mammal Ages) around the world from Late Miocene to Middle Pleistocene and major events in horse evolutionary history

L Rook, RL Bernor, LS Avilla, O Cirilli… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biochronology is important to vertebrate chronology because the primary temporal units
developed and applied by vertebrate paleontologists for correlation of terrestrial deposits …

Testing Equid Body Mass Estimate Equations on Modern Zebras—With Implications to Understanding the Relationship of Body Size, Diet, and Habitats of Equus in …

J Saarinen, O Cirilli, F Strani, K Meshida… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The monodactyl horses of the genus Equus originated in North America during the Pliocene,
and from the beginning of the Pleistocene, they have been an essential part of the large …

Evolution of the family Equidae, subfamily Equinae, in North, central and south America, Eurasia and Africa during the plio-pleistocene

O Cirilli, H Machado, J Arroyo-Cabrales… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The family Equidae enjoys an iconic evolutionary record, especially the
genus Equus which is actively investigated by both paleontologists and molecular biologists …

Zoogeographic significance of Dmanisi large mammal assemblage

S Bartolini-Lucenti, O Cirilli, L Pandolfi… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
We undertake a comparative mammalian zoogeographic analysis with the aim of revealing
the extent to which the Dmanisi Early Pleistocene large mammal assemblage resembles, at …

Genomics and the evolutionary history of equids

P Librado, L Orlando - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The equid family contains only one single extant genus, Equus, including seven living
species grouped into horses on the one hand and zebras and asses on the other. In …

Late Cenozoic mammalian faunal evolution at the Jinyuan Cave site of Luotuo Hill, dalian, northeast China

C Jin, Y Wang, J Liu, J Ge, B Zhao, J Liu, H Zhang… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, rich fossiliferous deposits dated to the late Cenozoic have been discovered from
Jinyuan Cave at Luotuo Hill, an extremely large-sized cave site situated within in the Dalian …

The last Plio-Pleistocene hipparions of Western Eurasia. A review with remarks on their taxonomy, paleobiogeography and evolution

O Cirilli, L Pandolfi, DM Alba… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene three-toed horses of Western Eurasia
(Caucasus, Anatolia, Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, Italian and Iberian Peninsulas …

New insights on the Early Pleistocene equids from Roca-Neyra (France, central Europe): implications for the Hipparion LAD and the Equus FAD in Europe

O Cirilli, RL Bernor, L Rook - Journal of Paleontology, 2021 - cambridge.org
We undertake a redescription of the equid sample from the Early Pleistocene of Roca-Neyra,
France. This locality has been recently calibrated at the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary …

Life and death at Dmanisi, Georgia: Taphonomic signals from the fossil mammals

M Tappen, M Bukhsianidze, R Ferring, R Coil… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are many hypotheses regarding influences on the early hominin biogeographic
spread into Eurasia; among them is increased meat-eating. Dmanisi in Georgia is one of the …