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Mandible morphology, dental microwear, and diet of the extinct giant rats Canariomys (Rodentia: Murinae) of the Canary Islands (Spain)

2010

An ecomorphological approach of mandible shape through Fourier analyses combined with a paleodietary analysis of dental microwear patterns is used to reconstruct the diet of the extinct endemic Canariomys bravoi Crusafont, Pairo & Petter, 1964 and Canariomys tamarani Lopez-Martinez & Lopez-Jurado, 1987. These two large rodents, respectively, lived on Tenerife and Gran Canaria, the central islands of the Canarian Archipelago. Mandible shape and dental microwear respectively inform us on the volume of vegetal matter and on the presence of grass in the diet. Both Canariomys, which are of similar size, possess relatively similar mandible outlines and microwear patterns. For each species, a diet…

0106 biological sciencesMorphometrics010506 paleontologygeographygeography.geographical_feature_categorybiologyEcologyMosaic evolutionZoologyMurinaeCanariomys15. Life on landbiology.organism_classification010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesMandible (arthropod mouthpart)Canariomys tamaraniArchipelago14. Life underwaterAllometryEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics0105 earth and related environmental sciencesBiological Journal of the Linnean Society
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