RT Journal Article
T1 Habitat changes and changing predatory habits in North American fossil canids.
A1 Figueirido-Castillo, Francisco Borja
A1 Martín-Serra, Alberto
A1 Tseng, Zhijie Jack
A1 Janis, Christine Marie
K1 Carnívoros fósiles
K1 Cánidos fósiles
AB The spread of open grassy habitats and the evolution of long-legged herbivorous mammals with high-crowned cheek teeth have been viewed as an example of coevolution. Previous studies indicate that specialized predatory techniques in carnivores do not correlate with the spread of open habitats in North America. Here we analyse new data on elbow-joint shape for North American canids over the past B37 million years and show that incipiently specialized species first appeared along with the initial spread of open habitats in the late Oligocene. Elbow-joint morphologies indicative of the behavior of modern pounce-pursuit predators emerged by the late Miocene coincident with a shift in plant communities from C3 to C4 grasses. Finally, pursuit canids first emerged during the Pleistocene. Our results indicate that climate change and its impact on vegetation and habitat structure can be critical for the emergence of ecological innovations and can alter the direction of lineage evolution
PB Springer Nature
YR 2015
FD 2015-08-18
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32918
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/32918
LA eng
NO Figueirido B, Martín-Serra A, Tseng ZJ and Janis CM. 2015. Habitat changes and changing predatory habits in North American fossil canids. Nature Communications 6: 7976
NO Política de acceso aberto tomada de: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/24265
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 25 ene 2026