ABSTRACT Methodologies that analyse the colouration and external appearance of extant species are very useful tools when facing one greatest challenges in palaeoartistic reconstructions extinct fauna: inferring colour patterns. Earlier works have applied this methodology, for example, reconstruction Miocene bovid Tethytragus , proving maximum likelihood (ML) analysis to infer ancestral states h...

Makapansgat Limeworks Cave is a well-known Australopithecus africanus bearing locality that has spawned a considerable amount of paleoecological research because of its hominin component. Most recently, the paleoecology of this Plio–Pleistocene site has been studied by determining the diet and habitat of other extinct taxa, particularly the bovids. The diets of seven bovids (Aepyceros sp., Gaze...

The Cooper’s D deposit has been dated by U-Pb at a maximum age of 1.37 Ma ± 0.113 and yielded seven Hominini remains, six them are attributed to the Southern African endemic species Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938. However, taxonomic composition faunal assemblage recovered this site, especially ruminants, remains poorly understood. This paper updates previous palaeontological biochronological...

RASMUS HELLER1,2,∗, PETER FRANDSEN1, ELINE D. LORENZEN3,4, AND HANS R. SIEGISMUND1 1Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark; 2Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Rua da Quinta Grande 6, P-2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal; 3Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, ...

Abstract Rusingoryx atopocranion is an extinct alcelaphin bovid from the late Pleistocene of Kenya, known for its distinctive hollow nasal crest. A bonebed R . Lake Victoria Basin provides a unique opportunity to examine nearly complete postcranial ecomorphology species, and yields data that are important studying paleoenvironments human-environment interaction. With comparative sample extant A...