The cranial anatomy of the Miocene notoungulate Hegetotherium mirabile (Notoungulata, Hegetotheriidae) with preliminary observations on diet and method of …

DE McCoy, CA Norris - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2012 - BioOne
The skull and mandible of the Miocene hegetotheriine notoungulate Hegetotherium mirabile
are described. Although conventional models of hegetothere biology propose that these …

Variation and covariation of skulls and teeth: modern carnivores and the interpretation of fossil mammals

T Dayan, D Wool, D Simberloff - Paleobiology, 2002 - cambridge.org
Teeth are generally the best-preserved elements among mammal fossil remains and are
highly diagnostic characters. Consequently, much mammalian paleontological, systematic …

Diets of notoungulates from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina: new evidence from enamel microwear

KEB Townsend, DA Croft - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The late early Miocene Santa Cruz Formation of Patagonian Argentina is
remarkable for its well-preserved and diverse mammalian fauna. This study evaluates the …

Phylogeny and locomotor ecomorphology of Oxyaenidae and macroevolutionary patterns in North American “Creodonta”(Mammalia, Placentalia)

HE Ahrens - 2017 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
The early Cenozoic witnessed the major diversification of placental mammals and large-
scale faunal turnovers as the modern mammalian fauna was established. As the dominant …

Occlusal enamel complexity and its implications for lophodonty, hypsodony, body mass, and diet in extinct and extant ungulates

NA Famoso, RS Feranec, EB Davis - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Tooth morphology and rates of wear have strong controls on how well mammals survive in
their habitats. Herbivorous mammals, specifically ungulates, combat the effects of wear …

The morphological diversification of carnivores in North America

GD Wesley-Hunt - Paleobiology, 2005 - cambridge.org
The evolutionary history of a clade has traditionally been studied through phylogenetics, and
taxonomic diversity has been used as a crude proxy for morphological diversity. However …

New partial skeletons of Palaeocene Nyctitheriidae and evaluation of proposed euarchontan affinities

CL Manz, SGB Chester, JI Bloch… - Biology …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Small-bodied, insectivorous Nyctitheriidae are known in the Palaeogene fossil record almost
exclusively from teeth and fragmentary jaws and have been referred to Eulipotyphla …

Reconstructing dietary ecology of extinct strepsirrhines (Primates, Mammalia) with new approaches for characterizing and analyzing tooth shape

EL Fulwood, S Shan, JM Winchester, T Gao… - Paleobiology, 2021 - cambridge.org
The morphological and ecological diversity of lemurs and lorisiformes once rivaled that of
the rest of the primate order. Here, we assemble a dataset of 3D models representing the …

Tooth counts through growth in diapsid reptiles: implications for interpreting individual and size‐related variation in the fossil record

CM Brown, CS VanBuren, DW Larson… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tooth counts are commonly recorded in fossil diapsid reptiles and have been used for
taxonomic and phylogenetic purposes under the assumption that differences in the number …

Hemiacodon engardae, a new species of omomyid primate from the earliest Uintan Turtle Bluff Member of the Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA

PC Murphey, RH Dunn - Journal of Human Evolution, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we describe a new species of Hemiacodon known only from University of
Colorado Museum Loc. 92189 (Donna's Locality) in the Turtle Bluff Member of the Bridger …