Small Mammal Taphonomy: Intraspecific Bone Assemblage Comparison between South and North American Barn Owl,Tyto alba, Populations

Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia

“…This loss is likely attributed to raptor consumption and post-depositional processes with some loss of smaller elements during recovery. This pattern is comparable to typical small mammal element representation reported from barn owl pellet studies from elsewhere (e.g., Andrews 1990;Lyman et al 2003;Saavedra and Simonetti 1998). The proportion of postcranial to cranial skeletal elements indicates that postcranial elements survived in greater proportions to crania, although the upper limb/crania index indicates that maxillae and mandibles (being denser) survived in greater proportions than dense upper long bones, while the upper limb/lower limb index indicates that upper limbs survived in greater proportions to lower limbs (SI Table 4).…”

Review of the Actualistic Taphonomy of Small Mammals Ingested by South American Predators. Its Importance in the Interpretation of the Fossil Record

“…For South America, several papers related to micromammal assemblage evaluations have dealt with the categorization of predators according to the modifications that they produce on prey bones, using their own methodologies for each case (Pardiñas, 1996(Pardiñas, -1998(Pardiñas, , 1999aSaavedra and Simonetti, 1998;Mondini, 2000Mondini, , 2001Mondini, , 2012Mondini, , 2017Cruz, 2008;Mondini and Muñoz, 2008). However, in the last 20 years, the number of actualistic papers has increased, especially those concerning central Argentina (see , in which the methodology proposed by Andrews (1990) and Fernández-Jalvo and Andrews (1992) Lontra longicaudis (Olfers, 1818)], enabled the allocation of these predators within the different modification categories that had been previously proposed (Gómez, 2005(Gómez, , 2007Gómez and Kaufmann, 2007;Montalvo et al, 2007Montalvo et al, , 2008bMontalvo et al, , 2012aMontalvo et al, , 2014Montalvo et al, , 2015Montalvo et al, , 2016bMontalvo and Tallade, 2009;Fernández et al, 2009a;Carrera and Fernández, 2010;Fernández, 2012;Rudzik et al, 2015;Quintana, 2015;López et al, 2017aLópez et al, ,b, 2018.…”

“…1, Leopardus geoffroyi (Felidae; Montalvo et al, 2012) and Puma concolor (Felidae; Montalvo et al, 2007); 2, Lontra longicaudis (Mustelidae; Montalvo et al, 2015), and average of Conepatus chinga (Mephitidae; Gómez, 2007;Montalvo et al, 2008); 3, Lycalopex griseus (Canidae; Gómez and Kauffman, 2007); 4, Didelphis albiventris (Didelphidae; Gómez, 2007). on the nocturnal raptor T. alba (Dodson and Wexlar, 1979;Hoffman, 1988;Andrews, 1990;Kusmer, 1990;Denys et al, 1996;Pokines and Kerbis Peterhans, 1997;Saavedra and Simonetti, 1998;Bruderer and Denys, 1999;Terry, 2004;Reed, 2005;Broughton et al, 2006;Andrade, 2015;Denys et al, 2018). This is because this raptor regularly uses caves or rocky refugees, and leaves all pellets in the area (Southern, 1954).…”

“…11.1). These reasons justify the need for more evaluations of T. alba samples, in which emphasis is focused on the differences in the results according to the area and time of collection, which are ultimately, according to the types of ingested prey, as already stated by Saavedra and Simonetti (1998).…”

Micromammal taphonomy of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel: distinguishing cultural from natural depositional agents in the Late Natufian

“…Attaining within family level identification of the strigid accumulating agent can be problematic. Variation in taphonomic signatures of owls has been observed geographically [64] and between different age groups [61]. However, barn owls are the most likely candidate because of their ubiquity in this region, especially among the cave-dwelling nocturnal raptors [3,80].…”