First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into bone consumption in Borophagus and their unique ecological niche

Borophagine canids have long been hypothesized to be North American ecological ‘avatars’ of living hyenas in Africa and Asia, but direct fossil evidence of hyena-like bone consumption is hitherto unknown. We report rare coprolites (fossilized feces) of Borophagus parvus from the late Miocene of Cali...

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Published in:eLife
Main Authors: Wang, Xiaoming, White, Stuart C, Balisi, Mairin, Biewer, Jacob, Sankey, Julia, Garber, Dennis, Tseng, Z Jack
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018
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Ecology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963924/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29785931
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.34773
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