A RE-EVALUATION OF THE DIVERSITY OF MEGANTEREON (MAMMALIA, CARNIVORA, MACHAIRODONTINAE) AND THE PROBLEM OF SPECIES IDENTIFICATION IN EXTINCT CARNIVORES

By P. Palmqvist, V. Torregrosa, J. Pérez-Claros, B. Martínez-Navarro, A. Turner. 2007

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene (2011, background): “cranial and dental morphometrics (Palmqvist et al., 2007), which concluded that a more primitive Eurasian species, Megantereon”
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris: Modelling the bone-cracking behavior of an extinct carnivore (2011, background): “…andM. whitei) during the early Pleistocene; these predators presumably maximized the amount of flesh that remained on their kills, given their highly specialized teeth, thus opening broad opportunities of scavenging for other species (Martínez-Navarro and Palmqvist, 1996; Palmqvist et al., 2007).”
Villafranchian: The long story of a Plio-Pleistocene European large mammal biochronologic unit (2010, background): “…colonizing Europe, some of them coming from Africa, such as the sabertoothed tiger Megantereon whitei (Martı́nez-Navarro and Palmqvist, 1995, 1996; Palmqvist et al., 2007), and others coming from Asia, such as the Caprini Soergelia minor, the spiral antelope Pontoceros ambiguous, or the buffalo…”
Villafranchian large mammals from the Iberian Peninsula: paleobiogeography, paleoecology and dispersal events (2014, background): “…and Meles thorali at Villarroya and Almenara-Casablanca 4 apparently represents the first record of these taxa in Europe, suggesting that by this time these species might have been already distributed throughout this continent (Palmqvist et al., 2007; Madurell-Malapeira et al., 2009a, 2011a,b).”