Diversity of muskox Ovibos moschatus (Zimmerman, 1780) (Bovidae, Mammalia) in time and space based on cranial morphometry

• Published in: Historical Biology
• Main Authors: Stefaniak, Krzysztof, Lipecki, Grzegorz, Krakhmalnaya, Tatiana V., Kovalchuk, Oleksandr M., Boeskorov, Gennady G., Nikolskiy, Pavel A., Baryshnikov, Gennady F., Ridush, Bogdan, Jakubowski, Gwidon, Pawłowska, Kamilla, Cyrek, Krzysztof, Sudoł-Procyk, Magdalena, Nadachowski, Adam, Czyżewski, Łukasz, Krajcarz, Magdalena, Krajcarz, Maciej T., Żeromska, Aleksandra, Gagat, Przemysław, Mackiewicz, Paweł, Semba, Agata, Ratajczak, Urszula, Kotowski, Adam, Roblíčková, Martina, Wojtal, Piotr, Shpansky, Andrey V., Malikov, Dmitriy G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: овцебыки; плейстоцен; преовибос; морфометрические исследования; Greenland; Zimmerman; muskox; ovibos moschatus; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1666374; https://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/koha:000894605

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...