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Musk Deer on the Run – Dispersal of Miocene Moschidae in the Context of Environmental Changes
The aim of this review is, first of all, to summarize and provide a helpful tool in Miocene faunas. Secondly, it gives an overview of our current knowledge on by characterizing the environmental conditio...
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Open AccessRuminant inner ear shape records 35 million years of neutral evolution
Extrinsic and intrinsic factors impact diversity. On deep-time scales, the extrinsic impact of climate and geology are crucial, but poorly understood. Here, we use the inner ear morphology of ruminant artiodac...
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Open AccessAntiquity and fundamental processes of the antler cycle in Cervidae (Mammalia)
The origins of the regenerative nature of antlers, being branched and deciduous apophyseal appendages of frontal bones of cervid artiodactyls, have long been associated with permanent evolutionary precursors. ...
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Open AccessConvergent evolution in toothed whale cochleae
Odontocetes (toothed whales) are the most species-rich marine mammal lineage. The catalyst for their evolutionary success is echolocation - a form of biological sonar that uses high-frequency sound, produced i...
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Comparative Morphometry of Bactrian Camel and Dromedary
There are two living species of Old World camelids (Camelidae, Artiodactyla): the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius). Differences in osteology between them are poorly know...
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Open AccessThe bony labyrinth of toothed whales reflects both phylogeny and habitat preferences
The inner ear of toothed whales (odontocetes) is known to have evolved particular shapes related to their abilities to echolocate and move under water. While the origin of these capacities is now more and more...
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BASEL: The Natural History Museum Basel (NMB)
The palaeontological collections of the Natural History Museum Basel comprise approx. four million specimens of fossil plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, and samples of microfossils. They attract many scie...
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Open AccessHeterochronic evolution explains novel body shape in a Triassic coelacanth from Switzerland
A bizarre latimeriid coelacanth fish from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland shows skeletal features deviating from the uniform anatomy of coelacanths. The new form is closely related to a modern-looking coela...
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Open AccessSize Variation under Domestication: Conservatism in the inner ear shape of wolves, dogs and dingoes
A broad sample of wolves, dingoes, and domesticated dogs of different kinds and time periods was used to identify changes in size and shape of the organs of balance and hearing related to domestication and to ...
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Open AccessBony labyrinth morphology clarifies the origin and evolution of deer
Deer are an iconic group of large mammals that originated in the Early Miocene of Eurasia (ca. 19 Ma). While there is some consensus on key relationships among their members, on the basis of molecular- or morp...
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What is a deer and what is an antler?
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Comparative anatomy of the osseous inner ear of dog breeds, dingoes and wolves. A study of intraspecific variation and domestication
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The mammalian assemblage of Mazan (Vaucluse, France) and its position in the Early Oligocene European palaeobiogeography
The locality of Mazan (Provence, South-Eastern France) yielded numerous remains of vertebrates, including numerous isolated teeth and a few bone fragments of mammals. A preliminary faunal list was published by...
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The Moschidae of Dorn-Dürkheim 1 (Germany)
The locality of Dorn-Dürkheim houses the youngest record for the family Moschidae in Europe besides Micromeryx mirus from Kohfidisch (Austria; Vislobokova Paleontol J 41(4):451–460, 2007) and Hispanomeryx sp. fro...
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Palaeobiodiversity, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography and biochronology of Dorn-Dürkheim 1—a summary
Dorn-Dürkheim 1 has yielded one of the most diverse fossil mammal faunas of Europe, comprising at least 80 species. It fills a gap in the fossil record of the terrestrial late Miocene concerning not only phylo...
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Evidence of northern Turolian savanna-woodland from the Dorn-Dürkheim 1 fauna (Germany)
Western European Turolian mammalian faunas and palaeoenvironments are less well known than middle and early late Miocene ones for which more data exist at a time when major climate events occurred (Middle Mioc...
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A tribute to Burkart Engesser
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Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of the Aquitanian locality Ulm-Westtangente (MN2, Lower Freshwater Molasse, Germany)
The mammalian fauna of the German locality Ulm-Westtangente from the Aquitanian Lower Freshwater Molasse is investigated. The fauna is compared to other rich European localities of the same time period. It is ...
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Preface: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Lithographic Limestone and Plattenkalk
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A new species of woodpecker (Aves; Picidae) from the early Miocene of Saulcet (Allier, France)
We describe a new genus and species of woodpecker (Piciformes: Picidae), Piculoides saulcetensis, from the early Miocene (MN1–MN2) of Saulcet, in the “Saint-Gérand-le-Puy” area, central France, which is the earli...
