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Display all details of Vomeronasal organ and olfactory structures in Phyllostomids 4 4
Display all details of Trematomus scotti with X-cell xenomas Three specimens of crowned notothen (Trematomus scotti) with X-cell xenomas (tumor like structures) captured in Andvord Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula on May 29th, 2018. 6 3
Display all details of Accelerated brain shape evolution is associated with rapid diversification in an avian radiation 65 65
Display all details of Gravibone: Functional morphology of limb long bones in Bovidae This project regroups the 3D scans of the humerus, radius-ulna, femur and tibia of various extant Bovidae that were used in the scientific paper cited below. It was funded by the ERC grant Gravibone carried by A. Houssaye (UMR 7179 MECADEV - CNRS / MNHN, France). More data about the specimens are available in the website of the MNHN's collection database, accessible here : https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/zm/item/search We wish to warmly thank the curators and staff of the MNHN's mammal collection for allowing us to digitize the bones. Etienne, C, Filippo, A, Cornette, R, Houssaye, A. Effect of mass and habitat on the shape of limb long bones: A morpho-functional investigation on Bovidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla) Journal of Anatomy. 2021; 238: 886– 904. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13359 Etienne, Cyril 246 73
Display all details of Tantilla specimens from Georgia Southern University 36 26
Display all details of Maiseyacanthus ozarkanum Partial cranium and endocast of Maiseyacanthus gen. et. sp. nov. Allison Bronson 3 1
Display all details of MoMi Jeantet, N., Ledevin R., Gala M., Lenoble A., Santos F., Laroulandie V. Investigating past and present carpometacarpus morphology in Mimidae: a multi-methods approach to evidence from the Guadeloupe Islands. 41 41
Display all details of OsteoID 3D scans of human and faunal skeletal elements associated with the OsteoID Bone Identification web tool at www.boneidentification.com. As part of the OsteoID project, we are making 3D scans of bones from various common U.S. species freely available, so that individuals may use the 3D scans to assist them in skeletal species identifications and/or 3D print their own comparative skeletal collections. All scanned elements are from the Des Moines University skeletal collections. Any human remains scanned are anatomical teaching specimens. Development of the OsteoID web tool and collection of the 3D scans was supported by Award No. 2018-DU-BD-0229, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice. A special thanks to Nathan Kuttickat for his time and effort in collecting many of these scans. Project PIs: Heather Garvin, PhD, D-ABFA, Des Moines University; Rachel Dunn, PhD, Des Moines University; Sabrina Sholts, PhD, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Citations: To come.... Dunn, Rachel 47 7
Display all details of Bite force analysis of Sonitictis moralesi from Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China We name a rare, hypercarnivorous, and durophagous mustelid Sonitictis moralesi, new genus and species, in honor of Jorge Morales for his contributions to carnivore paleontology. S. moralesi is only found in the Tunggur Formation of Inner Mongolia, China, in the late middle Miocene Tunggurian Land Mammal age. S. moralesi has a short and robust jaw that deepens slightly behind the m1 and possesses a shallow groove at its ventral surface. Dentally, it has robust premolars and highly hypercarnivorous m1 that has lost the metaconid and a trenchant talonid. Knowledge of this new mustelid is still poor, known by three jaw fragments, and its relationship is uncertain. However, based on its possession of a ventral groove, robust premolars, and hypercarnivorous first molar, we tentatively place it in the subfamily Mellivorinae, which includes modern Mellivora capensis (honey badger) and extinct species of Eomellivora, plus others. We conducted mandibular force profile analyses on one S. moralesi specimen and compared bite force estimates to several specimens of E. piveteaui, E. wimani and M. capensis. The results suggest that Sonitictis likely was a more capable predator and decimator of vertebrate prey than the extant Mellivora, reaching the low end of the bite force estimates for the larger and more robust Eomellivora. Xiaoming Wang 8 5
Display all details of Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes: Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals Files associated with the publication: Panciroli et al. (2021) Postcrania of Borealestes (Mammaliformes: Docodonta) and the emergence of ecomorphological diversity in early mammals. Abstract: The Middle Jurassic witnessed the early diversification of mammal groups, including the stem-mammalian clade, Docodonta. Recent discoveries in China indicate docodontans exhibited ecomorphological diversity akin to small-bodied mammals living >100 million years later, in the Cenozoic. Our understanding of the emergence of this ecological diversity is hindered by a lack of Middle Jurassic fossil material from other parts of the world. The two partial postcranial skeletons of Borealestes described here come from the Kilmaluag Formation, Scotland. These are the most complete Mesozoic mammaliaform skeletons currently known from the UK, and among the best preserved in Europe. As an early member of Docodonta, Borealestes provides key anatomical information for understanding the clade’s evolution, and the emergence of mammaliaform ecomorphological diversity. Using digital reconstructions from micro-CT and synchrotron scans, we describe the postcranial anatomy of Borealestes and provide an updated phylogenetic analysis incorporating cranial and postcranial characters. We find Borealestes species form a sister group to a clade comprising Agilodocodon and Microdocodon. To complement observational analyses of the skeleton, we carry out principle components analyses using 3D landmarks on a comparative dataset of 42 extant mammal taxa. Our results indicate Borealestes lacked specialisations for derived locomotor behaviour. We detect some similarity in the humerus between Borealestes and Ornithorhynchus. Borealestes is morphologically intermediate between the robust morphology of fossorial and semi-fossorial/semi-aquatic Haldanodon and Docofossor, and the gracile morphology for scansorial Agilodocodon and Microdocodon. We suggest ecological diversity in Docodonta may arise from an unspecialised basal bauplan, of which Borealestes may be representative. Panciroli, Elsa (fossil collection, segmentation, major aspects of research) 110 2
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