The species richness of Miocene browsers, and implications for habitat type and primary productivity in the North American grassland biome

By C. Janis, J. Damuth, J. Theodor. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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Coevolution of Tooth Crown Height and Diet in Oreodonts (Merycoidodontidae, Artiodactyla) Examined with Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts (2006, background): “Hypsodont taxa became abundant in the early to middle Miocene and from this time on, ungulate faunas of North America comprised more diverse assemblages of browsers, mixed feeders, and grazers (White, 1959; Janis et al., 2000, 2002, 2004).”
Carbon and oxygen isotopic variability in Neogene paleosol carbonates: constraints on the evolution of the C4-grasslands of the Great Plains, USA (2004, background): “Introduction 1985; Jacobs et al., 1999; Janis et al., 2002, 2004; but Grasslands are ecologically and historically important ecosystems, and their origins have had major consequences for the global carbon cycle, mammalian evolution, and the development of complex human societies.”
Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities (2010, methodology): “Damuth et al. (2002) introduced and Janis et al. (2004) used a technique called ‘per species mean hypsodonty’, where mean hypsodonty was related to species diversity (the number of species).”
Grit not grass: Concordant patterns of early origin of hypsodonty in Great Plains ungulates and Glires (2012, background): “…(Stirton, 1947; White, 1959; MacFadden and Cerling, 1994; Strömberg, 2006; Mihlbachler et al., 2011), or the entire large herbivore guild (and especially the hoofed mammals, or ungulates) (Janis et al., 2000, 2002a, 2004; Jernvall and Fortelius, 2002; Eronen et al., 2010c; Damuth and Janis, 2011).”
Déjà vu: the evolution of feeding morphologies in the Carnivora (2007, background): “An extant bison would be poorly suited for feeding in the North American early Miocene, when browse dominated grasses (Janis et al. 2004), but a wolf could have easily consumed its ungulate prey.”
Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals II: application to fossil data (2010, methodology): “Furthermore, Damuth et al. (2002) introduced and Janis et al. (2004) used a technique called ‘per species mean hypsodonty’ (PMH), where the predictor variable is an index incorporating both mean hypsodonty and number of large mammals species, closely akin to the key estimator variables that also…”