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A NEW AMPHICYONINE (CARNIVORA: AMPHICYONIDAE) FROM THE UPPER MIOCENE OF BATALLONES-1, MADRID, SPAIN

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A New Thaumastocyoninae (Amphicyonidae, Carnivora) from the Early Miocene of Tuchořice, the Czech Republic

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A large Percrocutid Carnivore from the Late Miocene (ca. 10–9 Ma) of Nakali, Kenya

scholarly article by Jorge Morales Romero & Martin Pickford published October 2006 in Annales de Paleontologie

A new creodont Metapterodon stromeri nov. sp. (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Langental (Sperrgebiet, Namibia)

A new genus and species of Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the early Middle Miocene of Arrisdrift, Namibia, and the origins of the family Bovidae

scholarly article (2003)

A new genus of tragulid ruminant from the early Miocene of Kenya

scholarly article by Israel M. Sánchez et al published June 2010 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

A new giraffid (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) from the late Miocene of Spain, and the evolution of the sivathere-samothere lineage.

scientific article published in November 2017

A new hypercarnivorous mustelid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Batallones, late Miocene (MN10), Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain

scientific article published on 2 April 2020

A new lophocyonid, Izmirictis cani gen. et sp. nov. (Carnivora: Mammalia), from the lower Miocene of Turkey

A new paradoxurine carnivore from the Late Miocene Siwaliks of India and a review of the bunodont viverrids of Africa

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A new suoid with tubulidentate, hypselorhizic cheek teeth from the early Miocene of Córcoles, Spain

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A non-aquatic otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) of La Roma 2 (Alfambra, Teruel, Spain): systematics and functional anatomy

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A primitive caprine from the Upper Vallesian of La Roma 2 (Alfambra, Teruel, Aragon, Spain)

scientific article published in June 1997

A reassessment of Prionogale and Namasector (Prionogalidae, Hyaenodonta, Mammalia) with descriptions of new fossils from Napak, Uganda and Koru, Kenya

scholarly article (2018)

A rich community of Felidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the late Miocene (Turolian, MN 13) site of Las Casiones (Villalba Baja, Teruel, Spain)

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A stratigraphical framework for Miocene (MN4-MN13) continental sediments of Central Spain

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A tubulidentate suiform lineage (Tayassuidae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Spain

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Ammitocyon kainos gen. et sp. nov., a chimerical amphicyonid (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the late Miocene carnivore traps of Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, Spain)

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Anatomy of the “false thumb” of Tremarctos ornatus (Carnivora, Ursidae, Tremarctinae): phylogenetic and functional implications

scientific article published on 30 December 2006

Anatomía comparada de los senos frontales en el félido dientes de sable primitivo Promegantereon ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae) y felinos actuales de tamaño similar

scientific article published in 2011

Anatomía functional del esqueleto post-craneal de Styriofelis lorteti (Carnivora, Felidae, Felinae) del Mioceno Medio (MN 6) de Sansan (Gers, France)

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Ancestral feeding state of ruminants reconsidered: earliest grazing adaptation claims a mixed condition for Cervidae

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Andegameryx andegaviensis Ginsburg, 1971 (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) del Mioceno inferior de Estrepouy (MN3, Francia)

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Antilopinae (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Lower Pliocene of Teruel Basin (Spain)

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Application of artificially intelligent systems for the identification of discrete fossiliferous levels

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Aragonictis araid , gen. et sp. nov., a small-sized hypercarnivore (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the upper middle Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)

scientific article published on 27 August 2021

Aspects of the functional morphology in the cranial and cervical skeleton of the sabre-toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia (Kaup, 1832) (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain: implications for the origins of the machairodont killin

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Biomic specialization and speciation rates in ruminants (Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia): a test of the resource-use hypothesis at the global scale

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of East Africa and the Iberian peninsula

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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)

scientific article published on 8 August 2019

Caracal depereti nov. sp. y Felis aff. silvestris (Felidae, Mammalia) del Plioceno inferior de Layna (Soria, España)

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Carnivoran resource and habitat use in the context of a Late Miocene faunal turnover episode

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Carnivores from the Late Miocene and basal Pliocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya

scholarly article (2005)

Carnivores from the Middle Miocene Ngorora Formation (13-12 Ma), Kenya

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Comparative Anatomy of the Shoulder Region in the Late Miocene Amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora): Functional and Paleoecological Inferences

article published in 2014

Comparative anatomy, phylogeny, and systematics of the Miocene giraffid Decennatherium pachecoi Crusafont, 1952 (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora): State of the art

scholarly article by María Ríos et al published 17 June 2016 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Complete description of the skull and mandible of the giant mustelid Eomellivora piveteaui Ozansoy, 1965 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae), from Batallones (MN10), late Miocene (Madrid, Spain)

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Congruent phylogenetic and fossil signatures of mammalian diversification dynamics driven by Tertiary abiotic change

scientific article published on October 2015

Creodonta and Carnivora from the Early Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia

scholarly article (2008)

Creodonts and carnivores from the Middle Miocene Muruyur Formation at Kipsaraman and Cheparawa, Baringo District, Kenya

scholarly article by Jorge Morales Romero & Martin Pickford published December 2008 in Comptes Rendus Palevol

Crocuta dietrichi de Meob, Namibia: Implicaciones sobre la edad de la Arenisca de Tsondab en la zona costera del desierto de Namibia

scientific article published in 2011

Dietary behaviour and competition for vegetal resources in two Early Miocene pecoran ruminants from Central Spain

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Dietary innovations spurred the diversification of ruminants during the Caenozoic

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2014)

Early Pliocene continental vertebrate Fauna at Puerto de la Cadena (SE Spain) and its bearing on the marine-continental correlation of the Late Neogene of Eastern Betics

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Early miocene silicified wood and associated fauna from the Cuenca Province, Spain—Genistoxylon dorycnioides n. sp. (Leguminosae-Papilionaceae)

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Ecological correlates of ghost lineages in ruminants

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El cambio de ideas acerca de la evolución y morfología functional de los félidos Machairodontinos

scientific article published in 2011

Eucyon debonisi n. sp., a new Canidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the latest Miocene of Venta del Moro (Valencia, Spain)

scientific article published in 2009

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

scientific article published on 29 May 2021

Evidence for an African-Iberian mammal dispersal during the pre-evaporitic Messinian

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Evidence of a false thumb in a fossil carnivore clarifies the evolution of pandas

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Evidence of predation /scavenging on Moschidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia) from the Late Miocene of Spain

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Evolution of the Family Ailuridae

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Feeding ecology and habitat preferences of top predators from two Miocene carnivore-rich assemblages

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

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First Early Pliocene micromammal faunas from Venta del Moro (Cabriel Basin, Spain): new data on the Messinian dispersal of Debruijnimys

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First Radiological Study of a Complete Dental Ontogeny Sequence of an Extinct Equid: Implications for Equidae Life History and Taphonomy.

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First fossil camels from Europe

scientific article published in Nature

First known complete skulls of the scimitar-toothed cat Machairodus aphanistus (Felidae, Carnivora) from the Spanish late Miocene site of Batallones-1

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First record of Mesopithecus (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) from the Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula.

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Fossil camels from the upper miocene of Europe: Implications for biogeography and faunal change

scholarly article by Martin Pickford et al published 1995 in Geobios

Fossil remains of Macaca sylvanus florentina (Cocchi, 1872) (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Quibas (Murcia, Spain).

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Functional anatomy and biomechanics of the postcranial skeleton of Simocyon batalleri (Viret, 1929) (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the Late Miocene of Spain

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Functional anatomy of the cervical region in the late Miocene amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae): implications for its feeding behaviour

scientific article published in 2017

Functional anatomy of the forelimb in Promegantereon* ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) from the late miocene of spain and the origins of the sabre-toothed felid model

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Functional and Systematic Implications of the Postcranial Anatomy of a Late Miocene Feline (Carnivora, Felidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain)

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Giant bunodont Lutrinae from the Mio-Pliocene of Kenya and Uganda

scientific article published on 30 December 2005

Hemicyon mayorali nov. sp., Ursidae du Miocène moyen de Tarazona de Aragon (bassin de l'Ebre, Aragon, Espagne)

Historical Determinants of Mammal Diversity in Africa: Evolution of Mammalian Body Mass Distribution in Africa and South America During Neogene and Quarternary Times

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Identification problems of arid environments in the Neogene–Quaternary mammal record of Spain

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Implications of the functional anatomy of the hand and forearm of Ailurus fulgens (Carnivora, Ailuridae) for the evolution of the 'false-thumb' in pandas

scientific article (publication date: December 2006)

Implications of the mastoid anatomy of larger extant felids for the evolution and predatory behaviour of sabretoothed cats (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae)

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Inferred behaviour and ecology of the primitive sabre-toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain

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Influence of continental history on the ecological specialization and macroevolutionary processes in the mammalian assemblage of South America: differences between small and large mammals

scientific article (publication date: 26 March 2008)

Isotopic paleoecology of mammals and the Middle Miocene Cooling event in the Madrid Basin (Spain)

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Key innovations in ruminant evolution: a paleontological perspective

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Kretzoiarctos gen. nov., the oldest member of the giant panda clade

scientific article published in 2012

Late Miocene hominoid from Niger

scientific article published in 2009

Late Miocene turnover in the Spanish mammal record in relation to palaeoclimate and the Messinian Salinity Crisis

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Les Giraffidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) d'Al Jadidah du Miocène moyen de la Formation Hofuf (province du Hasa, Arabie Saoudite)

scientific article published in 1987

Les Hemicyoninae (Ursidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) et les formes apparentées du Miocène inférieur et moyen d'Europe occidentale

Les ruminantia (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) du miocène des Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan)

scientific article published on 30 August 2001

Los carnívoros del Pleistoceno Medio de Atapuerca

book chapter on the Atapuerca site

Macaque remains from the early Pliocene of the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Machairodus aphanistus(Felidae, Machairodontinae, Homotherini) from the late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) site of Batallones-3 (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain)

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Mammalia from the Lutetian of Namibia

scholarly article (2008)

Megalictis, the Bone-Crushing Giant Mustelid (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Oligobuninae) from the Early Miocene of North America

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Micromeryx azanzae sp. nov. (Ruminantia: Moschidae) from the middle-upper Miocene of Spain, and the first description of the cranium of Micromeryx

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Mitilanotherium inexpectatum (Giraffidae, Mammalia) de Huélago (Pleistoceno Inferior; Cuenca de Guadix-Baza, Granada, España) – observaciones acerca de una pauta biogegráfica peculiar

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Morphometric Analysis of the Mandible of Primitive Sabertoothed Felids from the late Miocene of Spain

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Mortality patterns and skeletal physical condition of the carnivorans from the Miocene assemblage of Batallones-1 (Madrid Basin, Spain)

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Musteloidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) del Mioceno Superior de Venta del Moro (Valencia, España)

scientific article published on 30 December 2011

Neogene Mammal Sites in Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara, Spain): Correlation to Other Karstic Sites of the Iberian Chain, and their Geoheritage Values

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

New Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae) from Spain and a reassessment of the systematics and paleobiology of the genus Hispanomeryx Morales, Moyà-Solà, and Soria, 1981

scientific article published on 4 March 2019

New carnivoran material (Creodonta, Carnivora and Incertae sedis) from the Early Miocene of Napak, Uganda

scholarly article by Jorge Morales Romero et al published April 2007 in Paleontological Research

New data on the Moschidae (Mammalia, Ruminantia) from the upper Miocene of Spain (Mn 10–Mn 11)

scientific article published on 12 June 2009

New fossils of Amphicyonidae (Carnivora) from the middle Miocene (MN6) site of Carpetana (Madrid, Spain)

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)

scholarly article by Jorge Morales Romero & Martin Pickford published 31 December 2017 in fossil Imprint

New insights on the taphonomy of the exceptional Mammalian fossil sites of Cerro de los Batallones (Late Miocene, Spain) based on rare earth element geochemistry

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New remains of Dorcatherium crassum (Artiodactyla: Tragulidae) from the Early Miocene (MN4) of Els Casots (Subirats, Vallès-Penedès Basin)

article by David M. Alba et al published February 2014 in Comptes Rendus Palevol

Nuevos datos sobre Andegameryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia) del Mioceno Inferior de las Bardenas Reales (Navarra, España)

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On the socio-sexual behaviour of the extinct Ursid Indarctos arctoides: an approach based on its baculum size and morphology

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Origin of an assemblage massively dominated by carnivorans from the Miocene of Spain

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Origine et évolution des Melinae (Mustelidae, Carnivora, Mammalia)

Pachyostosis in a Lower Miocene Giraffoid from Spain, Lorancameryx pachyostoticus nov. gen. nov. sp. and its bearing on the evolution of bony appendages in artiodactyls

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Paleodiversity of the Superfamily Ursoidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) in the Spanish Neogene, related to environmental changes

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Paleoenvironments and paleoclimate of the Middle Miocene of central Spain: A reconstruction from dental wear of ruminants

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Pattern of sedimentary infilling of fossil mammal traps formed in pseudokarst at Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin, central Spain

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Presencia de la familia Moschidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) en el Vallesiense de España: Hispanomeryx duriensis novo gen. nova sp.

scholarly article (1981)

Presencia del bóvido Austroportax en el yacimiento mioceno de Batallones-1 (MN 10, cuenca de Madrid, España)

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Promegantereon ogygia(Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) from the Vallesian (late Miocene, MN 10) of Spain: morphological and functional differences in two noncontemporary populations

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Propalaeoryx Stromer 1926 (Ruminantia, Pecora, Giraffomorpha) revisited: systematics and phylogeny of an African palaeomerycoid

scholarly article (2018)

Quantitative inferences on the locomotor behaviour of extinct species applied to Simocyon batalleri (Ailuridae, Late Miocene, Spain).

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Re-evaluation of the very large Eomellivora fricki (Pia, 1939) (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Mellivorinae) from the Late Miocene of Austria

scholarly article by A Valenciano et al published 2017 in Palaeontologia electronica

Regional impacts of global climate change: a local humid phase in central Iberia in a late Miocene drying world

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Resource partitioning among top predators in a Miocene food web

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2013)

Revision of Varanus marathonensis (Squamata, Varanidae) based on historical and new material: morphology, systematics, and paleobiogeography of the European monitor lizards.

scientific article published on 5 December 2018

Samotragus pilgrimi n. sp., un nouvel Oicerini (Bovidae, Mammalia) du Miocène moyen d'Espagne

scientific article published in March 1998

Sexual dimorphism of the frontal appendages of the early Miocene African pecoran Prolibytherium Arambourg, 1961 (Mammalia, Ruminantia)

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Situación bioestratigráfica de los yacimientos de Atapuerca e Ibeas

book chapter on the Atapuerca site

Systematic revision of the Late Miocene sabre-toothed felid Paramachaerodus in Spain

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Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)

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Systematics and phylogeny of the small felines (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain)

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Systematics and taxonomy of the Spanish Anchitheriinae, and their relationship with regional climate changes: a comment on Eronen et al.

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The Atapuerca sites and the Ibeas hominids

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The autopodial skeleton of Paracamelus aguirrei (Morales 1984) (Tylopoda, Mammalia) from the late Miocene site of Venta del Moro (Valencia, Spain)

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The biogeographic history of ruminant faunas determines the phylogenetic structure of their assemblages at different scales

scholarly article by Juan López Cantalapiedra et al published 3 July 2013 in Ecography

The early evolution of the sabre-toothed felid killing bite: the significance of the cervical morphology of Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora: Felidae: Machairodontinae)

scientific article published on 6 October 2019

The first camel from the Upper Miocene of Turkey and the dispersal of the camels into the Old World

article by Jan van der Made et al published January 2002 in Comptes Rendus Palevol

The first complete skull of Hispanotherium matritense (Prado, 1864) (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the middle Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula

The first known Asian Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae)

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The fossil record of the Neogene Carnivore Mammals from Spain

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The genus Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae) and its bearing on musk deer phylogeny and systematics

scholarly article by ISRAEL M. SÁNCHEZ et al published 16 September 2010 in Palaeontology

The interplay between increased tooth crown-height and chewing efficiency, and implications for Cervidae evolution

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The systematic status of Kelba, Savage, 1965, Kenyalutra, Schmidt-Kittler, 1987 and Ndamathaia, Jacobs et al., 1987, (Viverridae, Mammalia) and a review of Early Miocene mongoose-like carnivores of Africa

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Tracing the origin of the panda's thumb.

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Trophic flexibility within the oldest Cervidae lineage to persist through the Miocene Climatic Optimum

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Un nouveau Bovidé (Artiodactyla, Mammalia), Hispanodorcas torrubiae n. g., n. sp., dans le Miocène supérieur d'Espagne

scholarly article (1982)

Una nueva especie de Agriarctos (Ailuropodinae, Ursidae, Carnivora) en la localidad de Nombrevilla 2 (Zaragoza, España)

scientific article published on 30 December 2011

Une faune très diversifiée du Pléistocène inférieur de la Sierra de Quibas (province de Murcia, Espagne)

Updated biochronology of the Miocene mammal faunas from the Madrid basin (Spain)

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Vertebrate taphonomy in circum-lake environments: three cases in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Granada, Spain)

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When Cotton Rats Grasp Like Pandas