We propose a practical concept that distinguishes the particular kind of weaponry that has
evolved to be used in combat between individuals of the same species and sex, which we …

Rhinocerotids are particularly abundant and diversified in Neogene deposits of the Indian
subcontinent, but their systematics is far from being well defined. Based on the revision of …

Sloths are represented today only by two distantly-related small, arboreal, and folivorous
genera. However, the fossil record of the clade is composed of many more taxa, with much …

The Brontotheriidae is an extinct family of Eocene perissodactyls known from North America,
Asia, and, rarely, Eastern Europe. Brontotheres are widely recognized as having evolved …

The Agenian is the earliest Neogene European Land Mammal Age. It encompasses the
mammalian zones MN1 (23.03–22.7 Ma) and MN2 (22.7–20.0 Ma) and roughly coincides …

The biostratigraphy and diversity patterns of terrestrial, hoofed mammals help to understand
the transition between the Palaeogene and the Neogene in Western Europe. Three phases …

Metaxytherium subapenninum was a halitheriine dugongid distributed along the
northwestern coasts of the Mediterranean Basin during the early and late Pliocene. It …

Although we do not know the cause of death of most fossil animals, mortality is often
associated with ecological stress due to seasonality and other stochastic events (droughts …

The Rhinocerotidae was one of most widespread and abundant mammalian groups in North
America during the Oligocene and Miocene but were extinct by the early Pliocene. Potential …

This paper describes a juvenile rhinocerotid skull from Eschenbach (eastern Switzerland).
Computed tomography revealed the presence of the unerupted adult teeth P4 and M3 and …