Fossil mammals resolve regional patterns of Eurasian climate change over 20 million years

By Mikael Fortelius, J. Eronen, J. Jernvall, Liping Liu, D. Pushkina, J. Rinne, A. Tesakov, I. Vislobokova, Zhaoqun Zhang, Liping Zhou. 2002

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1. J. Eronen
2. Thomas M. Kaiser
3. P. Jardine
4. C. Janis
5. H. Kreft
6. Mikael Fortelius
7. Kai Puolamäki
8. Walter Jetz

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• Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear (2013, background): “…2008), with proxies that indicate diet quality and possibly low or tall grass feeding (Codron et al. 2007, 2008), with the openness of the habitat (Mendoza & Palmqvist 2008) and with annual precipitation (Damuth & Fortelius 2001, Damuth et al. 2002, Fortelius et al. 2002, Eronen et al. 2010a, b).”
• An Evolutionary History of Browsing and Grazing Ungulates (2008, background): “Global temperatures fell dramatically in the latest Miocene (see Fig. 2.3), as did mammalian taxonomic diversity, and the mid-latitude vegetational habitats apparently became more arid (see e.g., Fortelius et al. 2002 ).”
• Hypsodonty in Pleistocene ground sloths (2006, background): “The evolution of hypsodonty in diverse mammalian lineages during the Ceno− zoic is also recorded in other continents; i.e., North America (Stirton 1947; Janis 1988, 1995), Africa (Bobe et al. 2004), Europe (Jernvall and Fortelius 2002) and Eurasia (Fortelius et al. 2002).”
• Isotopic discrimination of resource partitioning among ungulates in C3-dominated communities from the Miocene of Florida and California (2006, background): “…correlation to various morphological characteristics, and community body size structure (cenograms), which are able to suggest diet and vegetation structure (Legendre 1986; Janis 1988, 1990; Janis and Ehrhardt 1988; Solounias et al. 1995; Fortelius and Solounias 2000; Fortelius et al. 2002).”
• Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals II: application to fossil data (2010, methodology): “The new precipitation estimation method confirms the results of previous investigations (e.g. Fortelius et al., 2002, 2003, 2006).”
• Grit not grass: Concordant patterns of early origin of hypsodonty in Great Plains ungulates and Glires (2012, methodology): “…ecological expansion of silica-rich grasses – climatic cooling and drying and the fragmentation of forest cover – would also have led to an increase in the amount of grit being ingested by herbivores during feeding (Fortelius et al., 2002, 2006; Eronen et al., 2010b, 2010c; Damuth and Janis, 2011).”
• Evolution of hypsodonty in equids: testing a hypothesis of adaptation (2006, background): “It has recently been suggested that hypso- donty is/was favored by changes in vegetation indicative of ‘‘generalized water stress’’ leading to intensified tooth wear (Fortelius et al. 2002; but see Williams and Kay 2001 for a different view).”
• Mammalian Response to Cenozoic Climatic Change (2009, background): “For example, trends toward increasing hypsodonty have been well documented in faunas worldwide (South America: Flynn et al. 2003, Pascual 2006, Eurasia: Fortelius et al. 2002, Jernvall & Fortelius 2002; North America: Janis et al. 2004).”
• Mammalian dental function and wear: A review (2015, unknown): “In fact, Fortelius and coauthors [205] have proposed that hypsodonty may even be a reasonable proxy for rainfall, assuming a relationship between wear and an open-closed habitat gradient.”
• A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions (2010, background): “Another process leading to discontinuous distribution of species and assemblages is their strong association with climate and vegetation through space and time (Graham et al., 1996; Fortelius et al., 2002).”
• Biogeography of European land mammals shows environmentally distinct and spatially coherent clusters (2007, background): “In particular, it is of interest to know whether spatial units at the subprovince level, typically resolvable in good-quality fossil data (Fortelius et al., 2002), show evidence of coherence and environmental control in present-day data.”
• Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities (2010, methodology): “Damuth and Fortelius (2001) introduced and Fortelius et al. (2002) applied the use of mean hypsodonty to estimate past precipitation values from fossil molar teeth of large herbivorous mammals.”