Avoiding Competition: the Ecological History of Late Cenozoic Metatherian Carnivores in South America

2014/02/28 by Natalia Zimicz · 9 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Biology #Cenozoic #Dominance (genetics) #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Fish biology, ecology, and behavior #Geography #Guild #Mammal #Niche #Paleontology #Species richness #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9255-8

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• THE LATE EOCENE-OLIGOCENE EXTINCTIONS
• Iterative evolution of hypercarnivory in canids (Mammalia: Carnivora): evolutionary interactions among sympatric predators
• Mesozoic avian bone microstructure: physiological implications

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• Strangers in a strange land: Ecological dissimilarity to metatherian carnivores may partly explain early colonization of South America by Cyonasua- group procyonids
• Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?
• Diversity and disparity of sparassodonts (Metatheria) reveal non-analogue nature of ancient South American mammalian carnivore guilds
• Mandible morphology and diet of the South American extinct metatherian predators (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta)
• New Specimens of Acyon myctoderos (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia
• Caudal Cranium of Thylacosmilus atrox (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta), a South American Predaceous Sabertooth
• Eomakhaira molossus, A New Saber-Toothed Sparassodont (Metatheria: Thylacosmilinae) from the Early Oligocene (?Tinguirirican) Cachapoal Locality, Andean Main Range, Chile
• Great American Interchange [wikipedia]
• Sparassodonta [wikipedia]