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Strangers in a Strange Land: Ecological Dissimilarity to Metatherian Carnivores May Partly Explain Early Colonization of South America by Cyonasua-Group Procyonids Paleobiology, 45(4), 2019, pp. 598–611 DOI: 10.1017/pab.2019.29 Article Strangers in a strange land: Ecological dissimilarity to metatherian carnivores may partly explain early colonization of South America by Cyonasua-group procyonids Russell K. Engelman and Darin A. Croft Abstract.—It was once thought that the endemic carnivorous mammals of South America, the metatherian sparassodonts, were driven extinct by North American carnivorans through competitive exclusion. How- ever, sparassodonts went extinct before most groups of carnivorans entered South America; only the endemic Cyonasua-group procyonids (Cyonasua and Chapalmalania), which immigrated to South America nearly 4 million years earlier than other carnivorans, significantly overlapped with sparassodonts in time. In this study, we examine the functional morphology of the dentition of Cyonasua and Chapalmalania through quantitative analysis to determine the dietary habits of these taxa and the degree to which they may have ecologically overlapped sparassodonts and large predatory Neogene didelphimorphians. We find Cyonasua and Chapalmalania to be more carnivorous than extant procyonids, other than Bassariscus, in agree- ment with previous studies, but more omnivorous than most other carnivorans and all meat-eating South American metatherians, including sparassodonts. The extreme ecological dissimilarity between Cyonasua- group procyonids and members of the endemic South American predator guild may explain why procyo- nids were able to successfully establish themselves in South America several million years earlier than most other northern mammals (including all other carnivorans): they moved into a previously unoccupied eco- logical niche (large omnivore) and avoided direct competition with incumbent native species, a situation similar to that documented in historical cases of biological invasion. The omnivorous diets and climb- ing/swimming abilities of procyonids may have increased their chances for a successful over-water disper- sal relative to other carnivorans, further favoring their successful establishment in South America. Russell K. Engelman. Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Darin A. Croft. Department of Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4930, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Accepted: 5 August 2019 First published online: 12 September 2019 Data available from the Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9kj2fr6 Introduction Miocene that fossils of terrestrial carnivorans— South America hosts an impressive diversity specifically procyonids—are found in South of extant carnivorans, represented by approxi- America. These earliest procyonids include two mately 45 species (Burgin et al. 2018). However, closely related and apparently endemic genera: this high diversity is a recent phenomenon. For Cyonasua (late Miocene–middle Pleistocene, most of the Cenozoic, terrestrial carnivorans Huayquerian to Ensenadan South American were not present in South America. Instead, Land Mammal Ages [SALMAs]) and Chapalmala- the terrestrial carnivore guild was primarily nia (late early to late Pliocene, Chapadmalalan– composed of a wide variety of non-placental Vorohuean SALMAs), hereafter referred to as and nonmammalian carnivores, including sev- the “Cyonasua group” following previous authors eral groups of metatherians (including sparas- (e.g., Patterson and Pascual 1968;Baskin1982; sodonts; see Croft et al. 2018 and references Soibelzon and Prevosti 2007; Forasiepi et al. therein; Prevosti and Forasiepi 2018 and refer- 2014; Tarquini et al. 2016). ences therein), cariamiform birds (Alvarenga Cyonasua, as traditionally defined, appears to et al. 2011; Degrange et al. 2012; Tambussi be paraphyletic relative to Chapalmalania and Degrange 2013), and terrestrial sebecid croco- (Baskin 2004; Forasiepi et al. 2014); Chapalmala- dyliformes (Pol et al. 2012). It is not until the late nia is first recorded in the late early Pliocene © 2019 The Paleontological Society. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the DownloadedCreative from Commons https://www.cambridge.org/core Attribution licence. IP address: (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), 170.106.202.58, on 24 Sep 2021 at 14:07:56, subject to the which Cambridge permits Core terms unrestricted of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/termsre-use, distribution, and reproduction. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.29 in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 0094-8373/19 EARLY ESTABLISHMENT OF PROCYONIDS IN SOUTH AMERICA 599 (Chapadmalalan SALMA) and is thought to 2018). Most groups of carnivorans, including haveoriginatedviaaninsituspeciationfroma felids and ursids, do not appear in the South species of Cyonasua (Kraglievich and de Olaza- American fossil record until the Pleistocene. bal 1959; Marshall et al. 1979; Baskin 2004; For- However, exactly how and why Cyonasua- asiepi et al. 2014). Cyonasua and Chapalmalania group procyonids were able to establish them- do not appear to be closely related to the modern selves in South America nearly 4 million years radiation of South American procyonids (Fora- earlier than other carnivorans (and long before siepi et al. 2014), and their dispersal to the con- most other groups of North American mam- tinent appears to have been separate from that mals) has never been examined in detail. of other procyonid lineages which do not appear In this study, we test the hypothesis that eco- in the South America fossil record until much logical dissimilarity to incumbent metatherian later (Rodriguez et al. 2013; Forasiepi et al. carnivores was an important contributing factor 2014;PrevostiandForasiepi2018;Ruiz-Ramoni to the early appearance of Cyonasua-group pro- et al. 2019). Two other genera, Parahyaenodon cyonids in South America. We do so by examin- and Tetraprothomo, are also considered to belong ing the functional morphology of the dentition of to this group but are poorly distinguished from Cyonasua-group procyonids relative to other late Cyonasua and are probably synonymous with Miocene–early Pliocene South American mam- this taxon (Forasiepi et al. 2007). malian carnivores, particularly sparassodonts, Cyonasua-group procyonids ranged across and evaluating their positions in ecological mor- South America, from Venezuela and Colombia phospace. Based on this information, we recon- in the north (Forasiepi et al. 2014) to Argentina struct the positions of these taxa within the late and Uruguay in the south (Reguero and Can- Miocene–Pliocene South American predator dela 2011; Tarquini et al. 2016; Soibelzon et al. guild and infer the degree to which there may 2019). Most specimens of Cyonasua-group pro- have been ecological (specifically dietary) over- cyonids come from sites of late Miocene to lap between these groups. The results are dis- early Pliocene age (Huayquerian to Chapad- cussed in the context of other factors that may malalan SALMAs), but the group as a whole have affected the propensity of Cyonasua-group is last recorded during the early Pleistocene procyonids to disperse to and establish them- (based on the Ensenadan Cyonasua meranii; selves in South America. Ameghino and Kraglievich 1925; Soibelzon et al. 2008; Prevosti et al. 2013). The ancestors Materials and Methods of Cyonasua-group procyonids reached South America by 7.3 Ma (the age of the oldest For this analysis, we began with the mostly well-dated Cyonasua-group procyonid fossil; genus-level data set of Croft et al. (2018), Reguero and Candela 2011), likely by island which coded nearly all sparassodonts, most hopping or over-water dispersal (Simpson predatory late Neogene didelphoids, and a 1950; Marshall 1981; Webb 1985;O’Dea et al. broad comparative sample of extant carnivor- 2016; but see Montes et al. 2015), making ans for 16 characters describing the functional them the earliest securely dated North Ameri- morphology of the dentition and 1 character can mammals to participate in the great Ameri- describing body mass. To this data set, we can biotic interchange (GABI; Webb 1985; added one new character, the number of Woodburne 2010; but see Prothero et al. 2014 upper molars with grinding surfaces and references therein). Cyonasua-group pro- (described later), and coded seven additional cyonids were the only carnivorans in South taxa: the late Neogene South American procyo- America for nearly 4.3 Myr (until the arrival nids Cyonasua and Chapalmalania, FMNH of canids and mustelids in the late Pliocene P14407 (a sparassodont from the late Miocene Vorohuean SALMA, ∼2.9 Ma; Prevosti and For- or Pliocene of Corral Quemado, Argentina), asiepi 2018) and the only ones to coexist with and four extinct North American procyonids sparassodonts, the primary group of endemic (also detailed later). This resulted in a data set mammalian carnivores (Forasiepi et al. 2007; of 18 characters (listed in Supplementary Prevosti et al. 2013; Prevosti and Forasiepi Table 1) and 365 taxa. Additional modifications Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 24 Sep 2021 at 14:07:56, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.29 600 RUSSELL K. ENGELMAN AND DARIN A. CROFT to the data set of Croft et al. (2018) are described (basal borhyaenoid). Our observations of in Supplementary
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