The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Robinson Cave, Overton County, Tennessee

Guilday, John E.; Hamilton, Harold W.; Crady, A. D. Mc

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“…comm. Davis 1969Quinn 1972Hay 1924Nowak 1979Hawksley 1965Nowak 1979Simpson 1929Nowak 1979K u d n 1984Sinclair 1904Jefferson 1991aGalbreath 1964Hawksley 1986McDonald & Anderson 1975Memam 1912Marcus 1960;Miller 1968;Nowak 1979Gut & Ray 1963Nowak 1979;Kurttn 1984Nowak 1979Guilday et al 1969Webb 1974Wilkins 1983Simpson 1928Kurttn 1984Mead 1994pers. comm.…”

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Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, in North and South America

Dundas¹

1999

Boreas

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Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Cunis dirus, in North and South America ROBERT G. DUNDAS Dundas, R. G. 1999 (September): Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, in North and South America. Boreas, VOI. 28, pp. 375-385. OS~O. ISSN 0300-9483. The dire wolf was an important large, late Pleistocene predator in North and South America, well adapted to preying on megaherbivores. Geographically widespread, Canis dirus is reported from 136 localities in North America from Alberta, Canada, southward and from three localities in South America (Muaco, Venezuela; Talam, Peru; and Tarija, Bolivia). The species lived in a variety of environments, from forested mountains to open grasslands and plains ranging in elevation from sea level to 2255 m (7400 feet). Cunis dirus is assigned to the Rancholabrean land mammal age of North America and the Lujanian land mammal age of South America and was among the many large carnivores and megaherbivores that became extinct in North and South America near the end of the Pleistocene Epoch.

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Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, in North and South America

Dundas¹

1999

Boreas

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“…For example, with the advance and retreat of glaciers, it is unlikely that the dominant members of a species were forced into new habitats by climatic or environmental changes, and more likely that they remained in their preferred niche as this niche advanced or retreated with changes in climate, whether in a desert, a tundra, or other type of habitat (2,27). With advancing glaciation during the Pleistocene there was a general shift southward of whole faunas that have since retreated northward again (27,28). Arctic shrews (Sorex arcticus), northern bog lemmings (Synaptomys borealis), and pine martens (Martes americans) occurred in Tennessee.…”

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“…For example, Dicrostonyx, while highly evolved for its arctic habitat, seems to have occupied similar less boreal and discontinuous parklike habitats, and later to have survived only in more purely arctic habitats. There is recent evidence that a relatively boreal parkland-coniferous forest existed in Pennsylvania during the late Pleistocene, and that Dicrostonyx did indeed occupy these discontinuous grassy parklands that were interspersed in a region of boreal coniferous forest (27,36). Dicrostonyx disappeared with the subsequent gradual transition of boreal parkland to boreal forest and is now re- 3 APRIL 1970 stricted to the arctic tundra.…”

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Social Subordination, Population Density, and Mammalian Evolution

Christian

1970

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“…There is an extensive fossil record of Myotis known predominantly from the late Oligocene through Holocene in Europe [ 14 – 21 ] with lesser occurrences known from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa, the late Miocene through Pleistocene in North America, and the Pleistocene and Holocene of China, Japan and Madagascar [ 22 – 35 ]. In the following work a new species of Myotis is described from the earliest Oligocene.…”

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33 million year old Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats

Gunnell

Smith

2017

PLoS ONE

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The bat genus Myotis is represented by 120+ living species and 40+ extinct species and is found on every continent except Antarctica. The time of divergence of Myotis has been contentious as has the time and place of origin of its encompassing group the Vespertilionidae, the most diverse (450+ species) and widely distributed extant bat family. Fossil Myotis species are common, especially in Europe, beginning in the Miocene but earlier records are poor. Recent study of new specimens from the Belgian early Oligocene locality of Boutersem reveals the presence of a relatively large vespertilionid. Morphological comparison and phylogenetic analysis confirms that the new, large form can be confidently assigned to the genus Myotis, making this record the earliest known for that taxon and extending the temporal range of this extant genus to over 33 million years. This suggests that previously published molecular divergence dates for crown myotines (Myotis) are too young by at least 7 million years. Additionally, examination of first fossil appearance data of 1,011 extant placental mammal genera indicates that only 13 first occurred in the middle to late Paleogene (48 to 33 million years ago) and of these, six represent bats, including Myotis. Paleogene members of both major suborders of Chiroptera (Yangochiroptera and Yinpterochiroptera) include extant genera indicating early establishment of successful and long-term adaptive strategies as bats underwent an explosive radiation near the beginning of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum in the Old World. A second bat adaptive radiation in the New World began coincident with the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum.

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The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Robinson Cave, Overton County, Tennessee

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, in North and South America

Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, in North and South America

Social Subordination, Population Density, and Mammalian Evolution

33 million year old Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats

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