Dietary adaptations of extant and Neogene African suids

By John M. Harris, T. Cerling. 2006

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Tracing the ecophysiology of ungulates and predator–prey relationships in an early Pleistocene large mammal community (2008, background): “Oxygen-isotope values in enamel and bone apatite reflect prevailing climatic conditions (e.g., palaeotemperature; Koch et al., 1989; Ayliffe et al., 1992), but they also allow the interpretation of the dietary water source of a local fauna (Sponheimer and Lee-Thorp, 2001; Harris and Cerling, 2002).”
Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals (2005, unknown): “6& [15].”
Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli: Implications for early hominin paleoecology (2007, background): “However, Harris and Cerling (2002) note that the δ18O values are more consistent with bush pigs or forest hogs that are more water dependent.”
Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa (2014, background): “Early Pleistocene Kolpochoerus from Lake Turkana was a grazer, but more dependent on water than Metridiochoerus (Harris and Cerling, 2002).”
The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo (2004, background): “Although Kolpochoerus was a grazer (Harris and Cerling, 2002), it appears to have frequented somewhat closed, perhaps densely thicketed environments (Bishop, 1999), and by association, Australopithecus may have occupied such habitats as well.”
The Morphophysiological Adaptations of Browsing and Grazing Mammals (2008, background): “Differences in hypsodonty (Harris and Cerling 2002; Mendoza et al. 2002) accord with observations in other taxonomic groups.”
The evolution of arid ecosystems in eastern Africa (2006, background): “…main lineages of Mio-Pliocene African Suidae (Nyanzachoerus-Notochoerus, Kolpochoerus, and Metridiochoerus) incorporated C4 grasses in their diet (Harris and Cerling, 2002), but postcranial evidence indicates that they were not necessarily occupying open environments until later in the…”
Identifying Aquatic Habits Of Herbivorous Mammals Through Stable Isotope Analysis (2008, background): “FIGURE 4?Bivar?ate plot of mean 8180 values for living populations and fossil accumulations of various species of hippopotamids and associated fauna (Kohn et al., 1996; Leakey et al., 1996; Zazzo et al., 2000; Franz-Odendaal et al., 2002; Harris and Cerling 2002; Cerling et al., 2003; Levin, et al.,”
Hypsodonty in ungulates: an adaptation for grass consumption or for foraging in open habitat? (2008, background): “Similarly, the degree of hypsodonty has been used for estimating the habitat of ancient ungulates, in an attempt to reconstruct the environments of early hominids (e.g. Spencer, 1997; Reed, 1998; Harris & Cerling, 2002).”
Bonebeds : genesis, analysis, and paleobiological significance (2007, background): “Studies using carbon and oxygen isotope data to focus on the dietary choices of one or two herbivores reveal similar kinds of isotopic offsets (Quade et al., 1995; McFadden and Cerling, 1996; MacFadden and Shockey, 1997; MacFadden, 1998; Cerling et al., 1999; MacFadden et al., 1999b; Feranec and Mac”