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Body Mass Estimation in Amphicyonid Carnivoran Mammals: a Multiple Regression Approach from the Skull and Skeleton University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Museum Museum, University of Nebraska State 2011 Body Mass Estimation in Amphicyonid Carnivoran Mammals: A Multiple Regression Approach from the Skull and Skeleton Borja Figueirido Universidad de Málaga, [email protected] Juan Antonio Perez-Claros Universidad de Malaga, [email protected] Robert Hunt University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Paul Palmqvist Universidad de Malaga, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museummammalogy Figueirido, Borja; Perez-Claros, Juan Antonio; Hunt, Robert; and Palmqvist, Paul, "Body Mass Estimation in Amphicyonid Carnivoran Mammals: A Multiple Regression Approach from the Skull and Skeleton" (2011). Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Museum. 287. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museummammalogy/287 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Museum, University of Nebraska State at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mammalogy Papers: University of Nebraska State Museum by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Body mass estimation in amphicyonid carnivoran mammals: A multiple regression approach from the skull and skeleton BORJA FIGUEIRIDO, JUAN A. PÉREZ−CLAROS, ROBERT M. HUNT, JR., and PAUL PALMQVIST Figueirido, B., Pérez−Claros, J.A., Hunt, R.M. Jr., and Palmqvist, P. 2011. Body mass estimation in amphicyonid carnivoran mammals: A multiple regression approach from the skull and skeleton. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (2): 225–246. The body masses of sixteen species of amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the New and Old World were estimated on the basis of 86 osteological variables measured from the craniodental (N = 44) and postcranial (N = 42) skeleton of living species of Canidae and Ursidae. Given the absence of complete and well preserved skeletons of amphicyonids in the fossil record, multiple regression functions were derived separately from measurements taken from the mandible, the cranium and the major limb bones. The accuracy of the regression functions was evaluated using the percentage prediction error and the percentage standard error of the estimates. Mass values were calculated with these equations using measurements taken in adult individuals from a number of daphoenine and amphicyonine species. Re− sults obtained show that three distinct size classes of amphicyonids emerged through the evolutionary history of the “beardog” family and that these size classes correlate with presumably different ecomorphs. Quantitative estimates of body size of amphicyonids are critical for deciphering the paleobiology of this poorly understood family of large fissiped carnivorans and can be used for placing it within a broader ecological context. Key words: Mammalia, Carnivora, Amphicyonidae, body mass, multiple regression, skull, skeleton. Borja Figueirido [[email protected]], Juan Antonio Pérez−Claros [[email protected]], and Paul Palmqvist [[email protected]], Departamento de Ecología y Geología. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Teatinos s/n. 29071 Málaga, Spain; Robert M. Hunt, Jr. [[email protected]], Department of Geological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588−0514. Received 13 January 2010, accepted 29 July 2010, available online 16 August 2010. Introduction since Haeckel (1866) identified them as a taxonomic unit. For example, some authors have considered the amphicyonids as a The extinct family Amphicyonidae Haeckel, 1866, also subfamily of Canidae based on their dog−like dentition and known as beardogs, comprises a group of mid−Cenozoic their long and narrow rostrum (Matthew 1924; Helbing 1928; carnivorous mammals with Holarctic and Paleotropical dis− Viret 1951). In contrast, their shortened distal limb segments, tribution. This family is first recorded at the end of the their plantigrade hind feet and their broad molars have been Eocene (Hunt 1998, 2002) and rises in diversity in the used by other researchers for placing them as a subfamily of Oligocene, playing a pivotal role within the carnivore guild Ursidae (Hough 1948; Olsen 1960; Ginsburg 1961, 1977; during the Miocene (Viranta 1996). Amphicyonids became Heizmann 1973; De Beaumont 1984). extinct in the late Miocene, presumably through competi− The family Amphicyonidae is now considered as mono− tive replacement by the felids, borophagine canids and phyletic (Hunt 1974, 1977, 1998), within or allied with the dog−like hyaenids (Van Valkenburgh 1999). Throughout Arctoidea (Hunt 1998), and probably represents the sister their time span, amphicyonids covered a wide body size group of either bears (Wyss and Flynn 1993) or all extant spectrum (<5 to >200 kg; Hunt 2001, 2003) and were caniforms (Wesley−Hunt and Flynn 2005). However, their pe− adapted to different ecological roles, ranging from hyper− culiar skeletal morphology, which includes features shared by carnivorous to omnivorous (Viranta 1996). the living canids combined with others indicative of ursids, as Amphicyonids exhibit a combination of dental and skeletal well as the absence of living relatives means that the paleo− morphologies unlike any of the living carnivorans (Sorkin biology of these carnivores remains elusive. The reason is that 2006), but they also share several common traits with ursids there are no close modern analogs for amphicyonids among and canids (and hence their informal name of beardogs). For the living fissiped carnivores. For example, extant canids and this reason, their systematic position has been under debate ursids are only distantly related to amphicyonids and have Acta Palaeontol. Pol. 56 (2): 225–246, 2011 doi:10.4202/app.2010.0005 226 ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA 56 (2), 2011 postcranial skeletons that are highly specialized relative to the fications of the proximal elements of either the fore− or hind earliest caniforms (Wang et al. 2005; Wang and Tedford limbs (Biknevicius 1993). Finally, the preservational bias of 2008). Also, the Pleistocene and Recent canine canids and ur− the fossil record has resulted in the extensive use of dental sine ursids do not cover the entire spectrum of ecological ad− measurements for predicting the body mass of ancient mam− aptations seen in amphicyonids. In addition, some beardogs mals. The reason is that, because of their denser mineraliza− more closely parallel living felids in some postcranial features tion, teeth are often better preserved than the bones of the (Hunt 1998) and may even show a combination of skeletal appendicular skeleton and also that teeth tend to be more di− features found in both ambush (e.g., shortened distal limb seg− agnostic of species identity. In addition, during the early part ments) and pursuit (e.g., elongated forelimbs) carnivores, of the 20th century, paleontologists tended to collect skulls which suggests that they probably pursued their prey for a lon− and teeth in preference to skeletal bones, a procedure which ger distance but at a slower speed than do living ambush pred− biased the museum collections. ators (Sorkin 2006). In order to obtain reliable inferences on the autecology of An essential step for understanding the adaptations of the extinct species under study, databases of linear measure− amphicyonids in a broad ecological and evolutionary context ments are usually compiled from their closest living rela− is to obtain reliable size estimates for them. The reason is that tives, a procedure which minimizes the bias introduced by body mass in mammals correlates with a plethora of physio− phylogeny. In addition, the extant species used for compari− logical variables (e.g., metabolic rates, heat flux and body son should cover the widest spectrum of body masses and temperature, metabolic costs of locomotion, growth and re− morphologies (Gittleman 1985; Figueirido et al. 2009; Figu− production), with many ecologically relevant characteristics eirido and Soibelzon 2010). However, this is not always pos− (e.g., life−history traits, diet, population density, home range sible, because the living relatives may either be phylogeneti− size and behavioral adaptations) and also with larger−scale cally distant from the extinct taxa (e.g., canine canids and ur− patterns in community structure and biogeography (Peters sine ursids versus amphicyonids in our case) or may exhibit a 1983; Calder 1984; Brown and Rosenzweig 1986; LaBarbera low specific diversity and a narrow range of body masses. 1989; Schmidt−Nielsen 1984). As a result, body mass has im− For example, this would be the case for the living hyenas, plications for resource partitioning and ecological displace− which are the best modern analogues for extinct bone−crack− ment among the members of the same dietary guild, which ing carnivores such as some borophagine canids (Werdelin translates into important ecological and evolutionary conse− 1989), although it is worth noting that Van Valkenburgh et quences (Eisenberg 1990; Maiorana 1990; Simberloff and al. (2003) have concluded that the most derived boropha− Dayan 1991; Dayan and Simberloff 2005; Mendoza et al. gines were pack−hunters with bone−cracking abilities. 2005, 2006; Palmqvist et al. 2008; Meiri et al. 2009). Conversely, the ancient taxa may show a unique design, Body size estimates may be calculated for extinct taxa us− not represented among the living forms, which would suggest ing the relationship between
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