Palaeoecological deductions from osteohistology

A Chinsamy - Biology Letters, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Palaeoecological deductions are vital for understanding the evolution and diversification of
species within prehistoric environments. This review highlights the multitude of ways in …

Osteohistology and palaeobiology of giraffids from the Mio‐Pliocene Langebaanweg (South Africa)

JM Jannello, A Chinsamy - Journal of Anatomy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The reconstruction of life history traits, such as growth rate, age at maturity and age at death
can be estimated from the histological analysis of long bones. Here, we studied 20 long …

Langebaanweg's sabertooth guild reveals an African Pliocene evolutionary hotspot for sabertooths (Carnivora; Felidae)

Q Jiangzuo, C Rabe, J Abella, R Govender… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Here, we describe and revise craniodental material from Langebaanweg 'E'Quarry (South
Africa, early Pliocene,∼ 5.2 Ma), which represents one of the largest and best-preserved …

Multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid from Langebaanweg 'E'Quarry (South Africa)

A Chinsamy, A Valenciano - Journal of Anatomy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Langebaanweg is a Mio‐Pliocene locality located on the West Coast of South
Africa. It is renowned for its rich diversity of both terrestrial and marine vertebrate fossils …

New insights on the ecology and behavior of Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora, Felidae, Machairodontinae) through the paleopathological study of the fossil sample …

MJ Salesa, B Hernández, P Marín, G Siliceo… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Late Miocene natural traps of Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, Spain) have
yielded thousands of fossils of vertebrates, mostly carnivoran mammals such as hyaenids …

The resilience of an injured Early Pleistocene Lynx from Taurida сave (Crimea)

NV Serdyuk, AV Lavrov, J Madurell-Malapeira… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present work describes for a first time a fused fracture of the metacarpals of the medium-
sized felid, Lynx issiodorensis, the putative ancestor of all Eurasian extant lynx species. The …