▪ Abstract The history of carnivorous mammals is characterized by a series of rise-and-fall
patterns of diversification in which declining clades are replaced by phylogenetically distinct …

Rudabánya is a rich late Miocene fossil locality first exploited for its vertebrate remains by
Pethö in 1902. The first fossil primate was discovered by the local Chief Mining Geologist …

This book summarizes the evolution of carnivorous mammals in the Cenozoic of South
America. It presents paleontological information on the two main mammalian carnivorous …

A recent molecular phylogeny of the mammalian order Carnivora implied large body size as
the ancestral condition for the caniform subclade Arctoidea using the distribution of species …

Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from
the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Lothagam is a key site for understanding the evolution of the African Plio-Pleistocene
carnivore fauna. The extensive Carnivora collection includes at least 21 taxa, with 15 …

Mandibular corpus shape variability was investigated in seven families of both extant and
extinct mammalian carnivores using two-dimensional landmarks and geometric …

Abstract The evolution of South American carnivorous marsupials, the borhyaenoids, has
been investigated through the functional analysis of postcranial adaptive traits and …

The vertebrate community of the late Miocene locality of Batallones‐1, Madrid Province,
Spain, is mainly composed of mammals of the order Carnivora, which represents 98 per cent …