Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons

11 páginas, 7 figuras

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Autores: Bover, Pere, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Michaux, Jacques J., Hautier, Lionel, Hutterer, Rainer
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Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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spelling Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletonsBover, PereAlcover, Josep AntoniMichaux, Jacques J.Hautier, LionelHutterer, Rainer11 páginas, 7 figurasHypnomys is a genus of Gliridae (Rodentia) that occurred in the Balearic Islands until Late Holocene. Recent finding of a complete skeleton of the chronospecies H. morpheus (Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene) and two articulated skeletons of H. cf. onicensis (Late Pliocene) allowed the inference of body size and the calculation of several postcranial indexes. We also performed a Factorial Discriminant Analysis (FDA) in order to evaluate locomotory behaviour and body shape of the taxa. Using allometric models based on skull and tooth measurements, we calculated a body weight between 173 and 284 g for H. morpheus, and direct measurements of articulated skeletons yielded a Head and Body Length (HBL) of 179 mm and a Total Body Length of 295 mm for this species. In addition to the generally higher robustness of postcranial bones already recorded by previous authors, H. morpheus, similar to Canariomys tamarani, another extinct island species, displayed elongated zygopodium bones of the limbs and a wider distal humerus and femur than in an extant related taxon, Eliomys quercinus. Indexes indicated that Hypnomys was more terrestrial and had greater fossorial abilities than E. quercinus. This was also corroborated by a Discriminant Analysis, although no clear additional inference of locomotory abilities could be calculated.Peer reviewedPublic Library of Science201220122010info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/48542reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015817info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/485422026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
title Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
spellingShingle Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
Bover, Pere
title_short Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
title_full Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
title_fullStr Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
title_full_unstemmed Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
title_sort Body shape and life style of the extinct balearic dormouse hypnomys (rodentia, gliridae): new evidence from the study of associated skeletons
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bover, Pere
Alcover, Josep Antoni
Michaux, Jacques J.
Hautier, Lionel
Hutterer, Rainer
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Alcover, Josep Antoni
Michaux, Jacques J.
Hautier, Lionel
Hutterer, Rainer
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Michaux, Jacques J.
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