In defense of fantastic beasts and what they ate: A case reinforcing the importance of taxonomy for paleoecology

Fantastic beasts and what they ate: Revealing feeding habits and ecological niche of late Quaternary Macraucheniidae from South America

(2020) Karoliny de Oliveira et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Isotopic paleoecology (δ13C, δ18O) of a late Pleistocene vertebrate community from the Brazilian Intertropical Region

(2020) Mário André Trindade Dantas et al.   REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA

Late Pleistocene meso-megaherbivores from Brazilian Intertropical Region: isotopic diet (δ 13C), niche differentiation, guilds and paleoenvironmental reconstruction (δ 13C, δ 18O)

(2020) Érica Cavalcante Omena et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

The Diversity of South American Equus: Did Size Really Matter?

(2019) Helena Machado et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

What Is Equus? Reconciling Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Analyses

(2019) Christina I. Barrón-Ortiz et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Dental eruption sequence and hypsodonty index of a Pleistocene macraucheniid from the Brazilian Intertropical Region

(2017) Leonardo Souza Lobo et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Exceptional Skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) From the Late Miocene of Argentina: Anatomy, Systematics, and Paleobiological Implications

(2016) Analía M. Forasiepi et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The temporal scale of diet and dietary proxies

(2016) Matt Davis et al.   Ecology and Evolution

On the relationship between enamel band complexity and occlusal surface area in Equids (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)

(2016) Nicholas A. Famoso et al.   PeerJ

Are Hypsodonty and Occlusal Enamel Complexity Evolutionarily Correlated in Ungulates?

(2015) Nicholas A. Famoso et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Occlusal Enamel Complexity in Middle Miocene to Holocene Equids (Equidae: Perissodactyla) of North America

(2014) Nicholas A. Famoso et al.   PLoS One

Occlusal enamel complexity and its implications for lophodonty, hypsodony, body mass, and diet in extinct and extant ungulates

(2013) Nicholas A. Famoso et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

On the relationship between hypsodonty and feeding ecology in ungulate mammals, and its utility in palaeoecology

(2011) John Damuth et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Comparing ungulate dietary proxies using discriminant function analysis

(2011) Danielle Fraser et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Anterior dentary shape as an indicator of diet in ruminant artiodactyls

(2011) Danielle Fraser et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear

(2011) Thomas M. Kaiser et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW