Listar por autor "Lautenschlager, Stephan"
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An eye for a tooth: Thylacosmilus was not a marsupial ‘‘saber-tooth predator’’
Janis, Christine Marie; Figueirido-Castillo, Francisco Borja
; DeSantis, Larisa; Lautenschlager, Stephan (PeerJ, 2020-06)
Background. Saber-toothed mammals, now all extinct, were cats or ‘‘cat-like’’ forms with enlarged, blade-like upper canines, proposed as specialists in taking large prey. During the last 66 Ma, the saber-tooth ecomorph has ... -
Comparing cranial biomechanics between Barbourofelis fricki and Smilodon fatalis: Is there a universal killing-bite among saber-toothed predators?
Figueirido-Castillo, Francisco Borja; Tucker, Shane; Lautenschlager, Stephan (Wiley, 2024-03)
Saber-tooths, extinct apex predators with long and blade-like upper canines, have appeared iteratively at least five times in the evolutionary history of verte brates. Although saber-tooths exhibit a relatively diverse ... -
Distinct Predatory Behaviors in Scimitar- and Dirk-Toothed Sabertooth Cats.
Figueirido-Castillo, Francisco Borja; Lautenschlager, Stephan; Pérez-Ramos, Alejandro; Van Valkenburgh, Blaire (Cell Press, 2018-10-22)
Over the Cenozoic, large cat-like forms have convergently evolved into specialized killers of “megaherbivores” that relied on their large, and laterally compressed (saber-like) canines to rapidly subdue their prey. Scimitar- ... -
Morphological convergence obscures functional diversity in sabre-toothed carnivores
Lautenschlager, Stephan; Figueirido-Castillo, Francisco Borja; Cashmore, Daniel; Bendel, Eva-Maria; Stubbs, Thomas L. (Royal Society, 2020-09-30)
The acquisition of elongated, sabre-like canines in multiple vertebrate cladesduring the last 265 Myr represents a remarkable example for convergentevolution. Due to striking superficial similarities in the cranial ...