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Mauricio Anton

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Anton M, Siliceo G, Pastor J, Jiangzuo Q, Salesa M
Anat Rec (Hoboken) . 2024 Dec; PMID: 39737718
Megantereon was a widespread saber-toothed felid from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Old World and North America, but its rarity in the fossil record makes it complicated to restore...
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Salesa M, Siliceo G, Anton M, Martinez I, Ortega F
Anat Rec (Hoboken) . 2023 Apr; PMID: 37060198
The Hyaenodonta were the most diverse carnivorous mammals in the European Eocene and were classically divided into three subfamilies: Sinopaninae, Arfianinae, and Proviverrinae, with this latter being the most successful...
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DeSantis L, Feranec R, Anton M, Lundelius Jr E
Curr Biol . 2021 Apr; 31(12):2674-2681.e3. PMID: 33862006
The scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium was one of the most cosmopolitan cats of the Pleistocene, present throughout Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas until at least ~28 thousand years ago. Friesenhahn Cave...
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Fabre A, Salesa M, Cornette R, Anton M, Morales J, Peigne S
Naturwissenschaften . 2015 May; 102(5-6):30. PMID: 25968493
Inferences of function and ecology in extinct taxa have long been a subject of interest because it is fundamental to understand the evolutionary history of species. In this study, we...
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Salesa M, Anton M, Siliceo G, Pesquero M, Alcala L
Anat Rec (Hoboken) . 2014 Mar; 297(6):1090-5. PMID: 24585664
We examined the first evidence of pathology in the forelimb of the primitive saber-toothed felid Promegantereon ogygia, observed in a radius from the late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) site of...
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Salesa M, Anton M, Turner A, Morales J
J Anat . 2009 Dec; 216(3):381-96. PMID: 20039979
We examine the functional anatomy of the forelimb in the primitive sabre-toothed cat Promegantereon ogygia in comparison with that of the extant pantherins, other felids and canids. The study reveals...
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Wroe S, Lowry M, Anton M
Zoology (Jena) . 2008 Mar; 111(3):196-203. PMID: 18313908
Questions surrounding the biology of large fossil predators that differ markedly from living forms have long intrigued palaeobiologists. Among such taxa few have excited more interest than sabertooth cats, whose...
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Anton M, Salesa M, Pastor J, Peigne S, Morales J
J Anat . 2006 Nov; 209(6):757-64. PMID: 17118063
Both the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) possess a 'false-thumb', actually an enlarged radial sesamoid bone, which contributes to the gripping action of the hand....
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Salesa M, Anton M, Peigne S, Morales J
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 2006 Jan; 103(2):379-82. PMID: 16387860
The "false thumb" of pandas is a carpal bone, the radial sesamoid, which has been enlarged and functions as an opposable thumb. If the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the...
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Jablonski N, Leakey M, Kiarie C, Anton M
J Hum Evol . 2002 Dec; 43(6):887-923. PMID: 12473488
A relatively complete skeleton of the fossil papionin, Theropithecus brumpti, from the site of Lomekwi, west of Lake Turkana, Kenya, is here described. The specimen, KNM-WT 39368, was recovered at...