The morphological diversification of carnivores in North America

By Gina D. Wesley-Hunt. Paleobiology, 2005

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Subfields: Anthropology, Ecology, Paleontology

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In Anthropology

1. G. Wilson
2. Douglas H. Erwin
3. Graham J. Slater
4. B. Van Valkenburgh

In Ecology

1. Graham J. Slater
2. G. Wilson
3. Douglas H. Erwin
4. B. Van Valkenburgh

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1. Graham J. Slater
2. G. Wilson
3. Douglas H. Erwin
4. B. Van Valkenburgh
5. E. Newham
6. David M. Grossnickle

Citations in the corpus

• Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, U.S.A.: dental morphology and body-size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled ecospace filling (2013, background): “Counter examples, however, have shown that morphological diversity sometimes increased either after taxonomic diversity increased (e.g., Early Triassic ammonoids [McGowan 2004]) or in step with increases in taxonomic diversity (e.g., Cenozoic mammalian carnivores [Wesley-Hunt 2005]).”
• DISPARITY: MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERN AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT (2007, background): “Wesley-Hunt (2005) also found concordant increases in disparity of tooth morphology and in diversity among North American carnivores, but with an ecological release and a rapid increase in disparity among ‘mammalian meat eaters’ after an efficient design evolves.”
• Long in the tooth: evolution of sabertooth cat cranial shape (2008, background): “Both families are feliform carnivorans (Hunt 1987; Martin 1998a,b; Wesley-Hunt and Flynn 2005), and their phylogenetic relationships are shown in Figure 1.”