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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Tapirus polkensis"”.
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Extreme Variation in the Sagittal Crest of Tapirus polkensis (Mammalia Perissodactyla) at the Gray Fossil Site Northeastern TN.
… preservation and quantity of fossil tapirs (<em>Tapirus polkensis</em>) from the Gray Fossil Site in northeastern Tennessee provides a unique opportunity for comparison and analysis of skeletal characters. Intraspecifically, modern tapirs show little to no variation in the morphology of the …
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Population Structure Based on Age-Class Distribution of <em>Tapirus polkensis</em> from the Gray Fossil Site Tennessee.
<p>Individuals of <em>Tapirus polkensis</em> from the Gray Fossil Site exhibit an excellent level of preservation. Intact skulls collected from the site were arranged in a rough age class system separated into 7 categories based on the teeth present and amount of dental wear. Such an eruption …
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Variation in the Modified First Metatarsal of a Large Sample of <em>Tapirus polkensis</em> and the Functional Implications for Ceratomorphs.
… of the third metatarsal in tapiroids. In <em>Tapirus indicus</em>, <em>T. webbi</em>, and 6 out of 31 <em>T. polkensis</em> feet at Gray, it extends more laterally to articulate with the fourth metatarsal. This condition is too variable for species distinction but is correlated with a decrease …
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The Occurrence of an Abdominal Fauna in an Articulated Tapir (<em>Tapirus polkensis</em>) Recovered from the Miocene Gray Fossil Site Northeast Tennessee.
… from fecal samples from the Baird's tapir (<em>Tapirus bairdii</em>) in Costa Rica and from samples collected from the Lowland tapir (<em>T. terrestris</em>) from Ecuador to assess their similarity to our fossil sample. Based on these data we discuss what role parasites may have played in the …
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Using Geographical Information Systems to Investigate Spatial Patterns in Fossils of Tapirus polkenis from the Gray Fossil Site, Washington County, Tennessee
… analysis has been applied to fossils of <em>Tapirus polkensis</em>, characterizing the spatial patterns exhibited. These analyses determined the importance of taphonomic and depositional processes that occurred during the sites formation. Six characteristics were analyzed, four at the bone …