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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2018
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| 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 |