Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry
Muskox Ovibos moschatus is a Pleistocene relic, which has survived only in North America and Greenland. During the Pleistocene, it was widely distributed in Eurasia and North America. To evaluate its morphological variability through time and space, we conducted an extensive morphometric study of 21...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.9939464 2023-05-15T16:29:32+02:00 Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry Stefaniak, Krzysztof Lipecki, Grzegorz Nadachowski, Adam Semba, Agata Ratajczak, Urszula Kotowski, Adam Roblíčková, Martina Wojtal, Piotr Shpansky, Andrey V. Malikov, Dmitriy G. Krakhmalnaya, Tatiana V. Kovalchuk, Oleksandr M. Gennady. G Boeskorov Nikolskiy, Pavel A. Baryshnikov, Gennady F. Ridush, Bogdan Gwidon Jakubowski Pawłowska, Kamilla Cyrek, Krzysztof Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena Łukasz Czyżewski Krajcarz, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Żeromska, Aleksandra Przemysław Gagat Paweł Mackiewicz 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9939464 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Diversity_of_muskox_i_Ovibos_moschatus_i_Zimmerman_1780_Bovidae_Mammalia_in_time_and_space_based_on_cranial_morphometry/9939464 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Evolutionary Biology FOS Biological sciences 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified dataset Dataset 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9939464 https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Muskox Ovibos moschatus is a Pleistocene relic, which has survived only in North America and Greenland. During the Pleistocene, it was widely distributed in Eurasia and North America. To evaluate its morphological variability through time and space, we conducted an extensive morphometric study of 217 Praeovibos and Ovibos skull remains. The analyses showed that the skulls grew progressively wider from Praeovibos sp. to the Pleistocene O. moschatus , while from the Pleistocene to the recent O. moschatus , the facial regions of the skull turned narrower and shorter. We also noticed significant geographic differences between the various Pleistocene Ovibos crania. Siberian skulls were usually larger than those from Western and Central Europe. Eastern European muskoxen also exceeded in size those from the other regions of Europe. The large size of Late Pleistocene muskoxen from regions located in more continental climatic regimes was probably associated with the presence of more suitable food resources in steppe-tundra settings. Consistently, radiocarbon-dated records of this species are more numerous in colder periods, when the steppe-tundra was widely spread, and less abundant in warmer periods. Dataset Greenland muskox ovibos moschatus Tundra DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland Zimmerman ENVELOPE(167.167,167.167,-73.300,-73.300) |
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Evolutionary Biology FOS Biological sciences 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Stefaniak, Krzysztof Lipecki, Grzegorz Nadachowski, Adam Semba, Agata Ratajczak, Urszula Kotowski, Adam Roblíčková, Martina Wojtal, Piotr Shpansky, Andrey V. Malikov, Dmitriy G. Krakhmalnaya, Tatiana V. Kovalchuk, Oleksandr M. Gennady. G Boeskorov Nikolskiy, Pavel A. Baryshnikov, Gennady F. Ridush, Bogdan Gwidon Jakubowski Pawłowska, Kamilla Cyrek, Krzysztof Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena Łukasz Czyżewski Krajcarz, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Żeromska, Aleksandra Przemysław Gagat Paweł Mackiewicz Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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Muskox Ovibos moschatus is a Pleistocene relic, which has survived only in North America and Greenland. During the Pleistocene, it was widely distributed in Eurasia and North America. To evaluate its morphological variability through time and space, we conducted an extensive morphometric study of 217 Praeovibos and Ovibos skull remains. The analyses showed that the skulls grew progressively wider from Praeovibos sp. to the Pleistocene O. moschatus , while from the Pleistocene to the recent O. moschatus , the facial regions of the skull turned narrower and shorter. We also noticed significant geographic differences between the various Pleistocene Ovibos crania. Siberian skulls were usually larger than those from Western and Central Europe. Eastern European muskoxen also exceeded in size those from the other regions of Europe. The large size of Late Pleistocene muskoxen from regions located in more continental climatic regimes was probably associated with the presence of more suitable food resources in steppe-tundra settings. Consistently, radiocarbon-dated records of this species are more numerous in colder periods, when the steppe-tundra was widely spread, and less abundant in warmer periods. |
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Stefaniak, Krzysztof Lipecki, Grzegorz Nadachowski, Adam Semba, Agata Ratajczak, Urszula Kotowski, Adam Roblíčková, Martina Wojtal, Piotr Shpansky, Andrey V. Malikov, Dmitriy G. Krakhmalnaya, Tatiana V. Kovalchuk, Oleksandr M. Gennady. G Boeskorov Nikolskiy, Pavel A. Baryshnikov, Gennady F. Ridush, Bogdan Gwidon Jakubowski Pawłowska, Kamilla Cyrek, Krzysztof Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena Łukasz Czyżewski Krajcarz, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Żeromska, Aleksandra Przemysław Gagat Paweł Mackiewicz |
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Stefaniak, Krzysztof Lipecki, Grzegorz Nadachowski, Adam Semba, Agata Ratajczak, Urszula Kotowski, Adam Roblíčková, Martina Wojtal, Piotr Shpansky, Andrey V. Malikov, Dmitriy G. Krakhmalnaya, Tatiana V. Kovalchuk, Oleksandr M. Gennady. G Boeskorov Nikolskiy, Pavel A. Baryshnikov, Gennady F. Ridush, Bogdan Gwidon Jakubowski Pawłowska, Kamilla Cyrek, Krzysztof Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena Łukasz Czyżewski Krajcarz, Magdalena Krajcarz, Maciej T. Żeromska, Aleksandra Przemysław Gagat Paweł Mackiewicz |
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Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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diversity of muskox ovibos moschatus (zimmerman, 1780) (bovidae, mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry |
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