A middle pleistocene coelodonta antiquitatis praecursor (mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Les Rameaux, SW France, and a revised phylogeny of coelodonta

A Uzunidis, PO Antoine, JP Brugal - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the evolutionary history of rhinoceroses has been extensively developed
and clarified, notably with the help of morpho-anatomical and molecular-based phylogenetic …

Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Philippines—Subsistence strategies, adaptation, and behaviour in maritime environments

AF Pawlik, RB Fuentes - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Archaeological research in the Philippines has produced a timeline of currently over
700,000 years of human occupation. However, while an initial presence of early hominins …

Late Miocene rhinocerotids from the Balkan-Iranian province: ecological insights from dental microwear textures and enamel hypoplasia

M Hullot, PO Antoine, N Spassov, GD Koufos… - Historical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The late Miocene is a period of increasing aridity and habitat openness in the south-eastern
Mediterranean region. The impact of these changes has not been fully explored regarding …

Reassessing the phylogeny of Quaternary Eurasian Rhinocerotidae

L Pandolfi - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The phylogenetic relationships within Eurasian Quaternary rhinoceroses is reassessed for
the first time by means of Bayesian analysis. The results show Stephanorhinus as a …

Adaptation to graviportality in Rhinocerotoidea? An investigation through the long bone shape variation in their hindlimb

C Mallet, G Billet, R Cornette… - Zoological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Weight support is a strong functional constraint modelling limb bones in heavy quadrupeds.
However, the complex relations between bone shape, mass, size and body proportions …

Long bone shape variation in the forelimb of Rhinocerotoidea: relation with size, body mass and body proportions

C Mallet, A Houssaye, R Cornette… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In quadrupeds, limb bones are strongly affected by functional constraints linked to weight
support, but few studies have addressed the complementary effects of mass, size and body …

New fossil remains of Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla) from the early Late Miocene Tebingan area, central Myanmar

M Longuet, Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
New fossil remains of Rhinocerotidae, dated from the early Late Miocene, were discovered
from the lowermost part of the Irrawaddy Formation in the Tebingan area, Magway Region …

Post-Eocene Rhinocerotid Dispersal via the North Atlantic

D Fraser, N Rybczynski, M Gilbert, MR Dawson - BioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The North Atlantic Land Bridge (NALB), which connected Europe to North America, enabled
high latitude dispersal, particularly during globally warm periods such as the Paleocene …

Geochronological advances in human and proboscideans first arrival date in the Philippines archipelago (Cagayan valley, Luzon Island)

JB Lambard, A Pereira, P Voinchet, H Guillou… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleolithic site of Kalinga, in the Cagayan River Basin (Luzon Island), has
recorded the oldest known traces of human occupation of the Philippine archipelago dated …