Showing posts with label Pliocene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pliocene. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

[PaleoMammalogy • 2017] A Basal Ursine Bear (Protarctos abstrusus) from the Pliocene High Arctic reveals Eurasian Affinities and A Diet Rich in Fermentable Sugars ---ScRaBBlE

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Reconstruction of the mid-Pliocene  Protarctos abstrusus  in the Beaver Pond site area during the late summer. An extinct beaver,  Dipoides ...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2018] The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses ---ScRaBBlE

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The Origin and Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds Berta, Churchill & Boessenecker, 2018. DOI:   10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010009   @ C...

[Mammalogy • 2018] Ethiopian Highlands as A Cradle of the African Fossorial Root-rats (Genus Tachyoryctes), the Genetic Evidence ---ScRaBBlE

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Šumbera, Krásová, Lavrenchenko, et al ., 2018.    DOI:  10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.003     Highlights • Six major genetic clades do not corresp...

[PaleoMammalogy • 2018] Evolutionary Adaptation to Aquatic Lifestyle in Extinct Sloths Thalassocnus Can Lead to Systemic Alteration of Bone Structure ---ScRaBBlE

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Thalassocnus carolomartini  McDonald & Muizon, 2002   Amson, Billet & de Muizon, 2018  DOI:  10.1098/rspb.2018.0270 Illustration:  O...

[Paleontology • 2018] Trachemys haugrudi • A New Slider Turtle (Testudines: Emydidae: Deirochelyinae) from the late Hemphillian (late Miocene/early Pliocene) of eastern Tennessee and the Evolution of the Deirochelyines ---ScRaBBlE

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Trachemys haugrudi   Jasinski, 2018 DOI:  10.7717/peerj.4338   Artwork by Mary P. Williams Abstract Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae) represe...