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Dental caries in the fossil record: a window to the evolution of dietary plasticity in an extinct bear

During the late Pleistocene of North America (≈36,000 to 10,000 years ago), saber-toothed cats, American lions, dire wolves, and coyotes competed for prey resources at Rancho La Brea (RLB). Despite the fact that the giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) was the largest land carnivoran present in t...

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Autores principales: Figueirido, Borja, Pérez-Ramos, Alejandro, Schubert, Blaine W., Serrano, Francisco, Farrell, Aisling B., Pastor, Francisco J., Neves, Aline A., Romero, Alejandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18116-0