Biting through constraints: cranial morphology, disparity and convergence across living and fossil carnivorous mammals

A Goswami, N Milne, S Wroe - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Carnivory has evolved independently several times in eutherian (including placental) and
metatherian (including marsupial) mammals. We used geometric morphometrics to assess …

Carnivorous dental adaptations in tribosphenic mammals and phylogenetic reconstruction

C De Muizon, B Lange‐Badré - Lethaia, 1997 - idunn.no
The molar morphology and structure of seven groups of flesh‐eating mammals
(Deltatheroida, Borhyaenoidea, Stagodontidae, Dasyuroidea, Creodonta, Carnivora, and …

[HTML][HTML] Oldest co-occurrence of Varanus and Python from Africa—first record of squamates from the early Miocene of Moghra Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

GL Georgalis, MKA Gawad, SM Hassan… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Lizard and snake remains from the early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Moghra Formation,
Egypt, are described herein. This material comprises the first fossil remains of squamates …

Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, 'Creodonta,' Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya

MR Borths, NJ Stevens - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Hyainailourine hyaenodonts are among the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals known.
The clade is widely dispersed, found in Eurasia, North America, and Afro-Arabia in the …

Carnivores from the middle Miocene Ngorora formation (13-12 ma), Kenya

J Morales, M Pickford - Estudios Geológicos, 2005 - estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es
Resumen La Formación Mioceno medio final de Ngorora (Kenia) ha suministrado
carnívoros muy interesantes. Entre los que se encuentran un enorme creodonto …

Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt

M Morlo, ER Miller, AN El-Barkooky - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Six new occurrences of carnivorous mammals from Wadi Moghra, early Miocene, Egypt, are
described, and the implications of these taxa for interpreting the biogeography of early …

[HTML][HTML] A new large hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and its bearings on the evolution and ecology of massive hyaenodonts (Mammalia)

F Solé, E Amson, M Borths, D Vidalenc, M Morlo… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We describe a new large-sized species of hypercarnivorous hyainailourine–Kerberos
langebadreae gen. & sp. nov.–from the Bartonian (MP16) locality of Montespieu (Tarn …

New hyaenodonts (ferae, Mammalia) from the early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)

J Morales, M Pickford - 2017 - digital.csic.es
Recent palaeontological surveys in Early Miocene sediments at Napak (Uganda), Koru
(Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia) have resulted in the collection of a number of small to …

Faunal correlation of Wadi Moghara, Egypt: implications for the age ofProhylobates tandyi

ER Miller - Journal of Human Evolution, 1999 - Elsevier
Wadi Moghara, Egypt, is an early Miocene fossil locality with a mammalian fauna that
includesProhylobates tandyi, one of the earliest known representatives of the …

A Miocene selachian fauna from Moghra, Egypt

TD Cook, AM Murray, EL Simons, YS Attia… - Historical …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The fossil bearing beds of Moghra, Egypt, have been well known for over 100 years, but the
ichthyofaunas have not been examined since the early 1900s. Moghra, on the northern rim …