Feeding ecology has a stronger evolutionary influence on functional morphology than on body mass in mammals

DM Grossnickle - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… the moment arm lengths for the force vectors of the temporalis muscle and superficial masseter
… of faunivorous species and herbivorous species (brown represents overlap of the two …

Diet-specific responses of skull traits to aridity gradients in bovids and cervids

MNRM Quibod, U Gélin… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Consequently, herbivorous mammals may have larger masseter muscles towards wetter …
for masseter width with aridity between the feeding guilds. Bovids and cervids are two ungulate

Geometric morphometrics of mandibles for dietary differentiation of Bovidae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla)

B Wang, M Zelditch, C Badgley - Current Zoology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… , and large herbivorous mammals with a rich fossil record. The … The larger area of attachment
for the masseter profundus … In the context of existing knowledge about ungulate ecology …

Why ruminating ungulates chew sloppily: biomechanics discern a phylogenetic pattern

Z Zhou, DE Winkler, J Fortuny, TM Kaiser… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
dietary abrasive component [24]. For example, Varela and Fariña [7] demonstrated a
relationship between the HI, masseter moment arm, … movements in herbivorous ungulates where …

Myology of the masticatory apparatus of herbivorous mammals and a novel classification for a better understanding of herbivore diversity

MD Ercoli, A Álvarez, NM Warburton… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… for an understanding of how dietary habits and masticatory … of rodents, ungulates and other
mainly herbivorous mammalian … Relative sizes of the main units and subunits of the masseter, …

Relationships between Craniofacial Muscle Morphology and Dietary Specializations across Mammal Phylogeny

J Bechara - 2021 - search.proquest.com
… or subduing prey, whereas herbivore jaws must do work to … across dietary groups, specifically
the superficial masseter, and … this study it was assumed that moment arms would be equal. …

… and masticatory apparatus of the rodent‐like mesotheriid ungulates (Notoungulata, Typotheria): exploring evolutionary trends in dietary strategies through ancestral …

MD Ercoli, MA Armella - Palaeontology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… He related this feature to the enlargement of the deep masseter … clades of extinct herbivores,
the ungulate data provide a … attachment surfaces and in-lever moment arm), those taxa …

Morphological and physiological adaptations for browsing and grazing

D Codron, RR Hofmann, M Clauss - The ecology of browsing and grazing …, 2019 - Springer
… , restricting our discussion to members of the ‘ungulate ’ … , in herbivores, have relied on one
of two ways to categorize dietProxies for face depth (eg, masseter:fossa face length ratio) …

Masticatory muscle architectural correlates of dietary diversity in Canidae, Ursidae, and across the order Carnivora

A Hartstone‐Rose, E Dickinson… - The Anatomical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
masseter, medial pterygoid, and temporalis; L MS , L PT , and L TMP represent lever arm
lengths of the masseter… soft-diet or generalist species when using BM as a size proxy (Figure 2a…

Sagittal crest morphology decoupled from relative bite performance in Pleistocene tapirs (Perissodactyla: Tapiridae)

L Van Linden, K Stoops, LCCS Dumba… - Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
masseter + m. pterygoideus muscle complex. t represents the moment arm of the temporalis
… Systematic investigations into modern herbivorous ungulate species and communities, like …