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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Postcranial morphology"”.
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Analysis of the Blancan Procyonids of Florida
… Blancan procyonid fossils composed mostly of postcranial and dental material. Fossils are analyzed using linear and 2D geometric morphometrics and compared with a large sample of modern specimens from a wide geographic area to understand the range of intraspecific variation. The large …
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Phylogeny and Evolution of Locomotor Modes in Carnivoramorpha (Mammalia)
… the first detailed description of the only known postcranial skeletal elements of "Miacis" uintensis, found to differ markedly from previously described "miacids" (a paraphyletic assemblage of early fossil Carnivoramorphans), invalidating the notion that all "miacids" were very similar in their …
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Mammalian Postcranial Evolution and Primate Extinction in the Middle Eocene of North America
… In this dissertation I describe and analyze the postcranial morphology of Uintan mammals from the Uinta Formation in Utah to address which lineages evolved to take advantage of arid habitats and which did not. The primary goal of this dissertation is to examine the relationship between mammalian …
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Geographic variation in the phenotype of an African horseshoe bat species, Rhinolophus damarensis, (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae)
… parameters, wing parameters, cranial shape and postcranial morphology of individuals from populations of R. damarensis across the distributional range of the species. Firstly, an investigation into geographic variation in resting echolocation frequency (RF) of the horseshoe bat species, R. …