Jorge Morales

City College of New York

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Manuel J. Salesa

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Israel M. Sánchez

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Juan Abellá

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Martín Pickford

Sorbonne Université

Mauricio Antón

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Béatriz Azanza

Universidad de Zaragoza

Alberto Valenciano

Iziko Museums of South Africa

Marı́a Teresa Alberdi

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Dolores Soria

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Carmen Sesé

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Eucyon khoikhoi sp. nov. (Carnivora: Canidae) from Langebaanweg ‘ E’ Quarry (early Pliocene, South Africa): the most complete African canini from the Mio-Pliocene

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2021)

Alberto Valenciano Jorge Morales Romala Govender

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Valenciano, Alberto, Morales, Jorge, Govender, Romala (2022): Eucyon khoikhoi sp. nov. (Carnivora: Canidae) from Langebaanweg ‘ E’ Quarry (early Pliocene, South Africa): the most complete African canini from the Mio-Pliocene. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 366-394, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab022

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The Ventian mammal age (Latest Miocene): present state

Spanish Journal of Palaeontology (2020)

Jorge Morales Pablo Peláez‐Campomanes Juan Abellá Plinio Montoya Francisco Javier Ruiz Ruiz

The Ventian land mammal age includes most of the Spanish faunas assigned to the biochronologic unit MN 13. It is correlatable with the Messinian, although it may include, in its latest part, early Pliocene faunas. We propose that the Ventian begins with the first occurrence of the Muridae genus Stephanomys (7 Ma, paleomagnetic dating from El Bunker, Teruel basin), well recorded in Teruel basin, and ends with the appearance of Promimomys (ca. 5 Ma), also registered in the Teruel basin. We suggest a new reorganization of the Ventian. The first subdivision corresponds to the zone M (Dam et al., 2001). The second, zone N, is proposed here for the first time, being equivalent to the zone with Celadensia (Mein et al., 1990; Dam et al., 2006) plus the part of the zone with two Paraethomys (Dam et al., 2006) in which Celadensia has disappeared and still does not register Promimomys. The Ventian is now accurately recognized with quite precise boundaries and divisions, so that it can be easily recognized in the Iberian continental basins with Mio-Pliocene sediments allowing refined intra- and inter-basin correlations

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Built for Strength: Functional Insights from the Thoracolumbar and Sacrocaudal Regions of the Late Miocene Amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain)

Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2019)

Gema Siliceo Mauricio Antón Jorge Morales Manuel J. Salesa

10.1007/s10914-019-09477-6

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Paleontología y biostratigrafía de los yacimientos villafranquienses de Las Higueruelas y Valverde de Calatrava II

Emiliano Jiménez Fuentes María Teresa Alberdi Alonso Ana Victoria Mazo Jorge Morales C. Sesé

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Batallones: un tesoro paleontológico en el sur de Madrid

Quercus eBooks (2006)

Mauricio Antón Ortúzar Manuel J. Salesa Jorge Morales

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New stem giraffoid ruminants from the early and middle Miocene of Namibia

Geodiversitas (1999)

Jorge Morales D. Soria Martín Pickford

At the early and middle Miocene localities of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia, new material of climacoceratid ruminants have been collected recently. From Elisabethfeld we describe new material belonging to Propalaeoryx austroafricanus Stromer, 1926, together with a new genus and species of climacoceratid Sperrgebietomeryx wardi n. gen., n. sp., a species without frontal appendages close to Propalaeoryx and to primitive early Miocene European ruminants such as Andegameryx. From the locality of Arrisdrift, we define another new genus and species of climacoceratid with frontal appendages, Orangemeryx hendey n. gen., n. sp., characterized by its complex tined frontal apophyses. Comparison of the dentition and postcranial skeleton of this genus and those of Sperrgebietomeryx suggests a close phylogenetic relationships between them.

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First African record of the Miocene Asian mouse-deer Siamotragulus (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Tragulidae): implications for the phylogeny and evolutionary history of the advanced selenodont tragulids

Figshare (2015)

Israel M. Sánchez Victoria Quiralte María Ríos Jorge Morales Martín Pickford

New remains of the small tragulid Dorcatherium songhorensis Whitworth, 1958 from the Early Miocene fossil site of Napak XXI (Uganda) include the first significant sample of postcranial bones from this species ever described. The limb bones of this tragulid are very similar to that described in the Miocene Asian long-legged tragulids of the genus Siamotragulus Thomas et al., 1990, a type previously unknown in the African Miocene. A cladistic analysis links D. songhorensis to a Siamotragulus clade as its basal offshoot, so we propose the name Siamotragulus songhorensis (Whitworth, 1958) for this species. Also, the Siamotragulus clade belongs to a monophyletic group that includes Afrotragulus Sánchez et al., 2010 and the extant Asian genera Moschiola and Tragulus. This inclusive clade is characterized by both a derived selenodont dentition and an advanced postcranial skeleton. Additionally Siamotragulus shows some cursorial refinements reflected in its postcranial skeleton including the pecoran-like metatarsals III–IV. Siamotragulus songhorensis shows that the genus Siamotragulus was not endemic to Asia as previously thought, and that a highly diverse guild of tragulids, including different members of the advanced selenodont clade, inhabited Africa as early as the Early Miocene (19–20 Ma).

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Biomic Specialization and Speciation Rates in Ruminants (Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia): A Test of the Resource-Use Hypothesis at the Global Scale

PLoS ONE (2011)

Juan L. Cantalapiedra Manuel Hérnandez Fernández Jorge Morales

The resource-use hypothesis proposed by E.S. Vrba predicts that specialist species have higher speciation and extinction rates than generalists because they are more susceptible to environmental changes and vicariance. In this work, we test some of the predictions derived from this hypothesis on the 197 extant and recently extinct species of Ruminantia (Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia) using the biomic specialization index (BSI) of each species, which is based on its distribution within different biomes. We ran 10000 Monte Carlo simulations of our data in order to get a null distribution of BSI values against which to contrast the observed data. Additionally, we drew on a supertree of the ruminants and a phylogenetic likelihood-based method (QuaSSE) for testing whether the degree of biomic specialization affects speciation rates in ruminant lineages. Our results are consistent with the predictions of the resource-use hypothesis, which foretells a higher speciation rate of lineages restricted to a single biome (BSI = 1) and higher frequency of specialist species in biomes that underwent high degree of contraction and fragmentation during climatic cycles. Bovids and deer present differential specialization across biomes; cervids show higher specialization in biomes with a marked hydric seasonality (tropical deciduous woodlands and schlerophyllous woodlands), while bovids present higher specialization in a greater variety of biomes. This might be the result of divergent physiological constraints as well as a different biogeographic and evolutionary history.

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10.1371/journal.pone.0028749

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Camélido finimioceno en Venta del Moro: primera cita para Europa Occidental

Zona arqueológica (2002)

Jorge Morales Dolores Soria Mayor Emiliano Aguirre

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