The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian

F Solé, B Marandat, F Lihoreau - Geodiversitas, 2020 - BioOne
We describe the carnivorous mammals from the Eocene French locality of Aumelas (Hérault,
France). All the carnivores that have been recovered from the fossiliferous locality belong to …

Comparing the evolution of the extinct, endemic carnivorous mammals of South America and Africa (sparassodonts and hyaenodonts)

AR Friscia, MR Borths, DA Croft - … of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Sparassodontsin South America and hyaenodonts in Africa present an interesting
test case for comparing the evolutionary trajectories of ecologically similar clades on once …

Function of revolute zygapophyses in the lumbar vertebrae of early placental mammals

AE Kort, KE Jones - The Anatomical Record, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The unique morphology of mammalian lumbar vertebrae allows the spine to flex and extend
in the sagittal plane during locomotion. This movement increases stride length and allows …

Taxonomic affinities of the enigmatic Prionogale breviceps, early Miocene, Kenya

MR Borths, NJ Stevens - Historical Biology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Prionogale breviceps is a tiny carnivorous mammal from the early Miocene of eastern Africa.
Originally, specimens were interpreted as the adult morphology of the taxon. The dentition …

New postcranial elements of mesonychid mammals from the Ypresian of France: New hypotheses for the radiation and evolution of the mesonychids in Europe

F Solé, M Fournier, S Ladevèze, K Le Verger… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
New postcranial elements of two mesonychids that lived during the Ypresian (early Eocene)
in Europe are here described. The postcranial bones found at La Borie (France;≈ MP8+ 9) …

New crocodylomorph material from the Fayum depression, Egypt, including the first occurrence of a sebecosuchian in African late Eocene deposits

CM Stefanic, JH Nestler, ER Seiffert… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT During the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, the Earth experienced tectonic
and climatic changes, which included continental drift following the breakup of the …

[HTML][HTML] The first North American Propterodon (Hyaenodonta: Hyaenodontidae), a new species from the late Uintan of Utah

SP Zack - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
The carnivorous mammalian fauna from the Uintan (late middle Eocene) of North America
remains relatively poorly documented. This is unfortunate, as this is a critical interval in the …

New hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (France) support a radiation of the hyaenodonts in Europe already at the end of the early …

F Solé, M Morlo, T Schaal, T Lehmann - Geobios, 2021 - Elsevier
We describe three new hyaenodonts from the late Ypresian locality of Prémontré (Aisne,
France; close to MP 10 reference level). The new species–Lesmesodon gunnelli nov. sp …

[PDF][PDF] Systematics and paleobiology of Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from the lower Miocene of Buluk, Kenya

M Morlo, A Friscia, ER Miller, E Locke… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2021 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Early Miocene carnivorous mammals from Buluk, Kenya, are described and discussed. Four
taxa belonging to Hyaenodonta and four belonging to Carnivora are identified. Members of …

[PDF][PDF] A large hyaenodont from the Lutetian of Switzerland expands the body mass range of the European mammalian predators during the Eocene

F Solé, B Mennecart - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 - bibliotekanauki.pl
We here present a new hyaenodont genus and species from the Lutetian locality of
Egerkingen γ (Switzerland; MP13?): Cartierodon egerkingensis gen. et sp. nov. The new …