First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into bone consumption in Borophagus and their unique ecological niche

Borophagine canids have long been hypothesized to be North American ecological ‘avatars’ of living hyenas in Africa and Asia, but direct fossil evidence of hyena-like bone consumption is hitherto unknown. We report rare coprolites (fossilized feces) of Borophagus parvus from the late Miocene of Cali...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoming, White, Stuart C, Balisi, Mairin, Biewer, Jacob, Sankey, Julia, Garber, Dennis, Tseng, Z Jack
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
Materias:
Ecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29785931
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34773

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29785931
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34773

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