Saverio Bartolini Lucenti

University of Florence

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Lorenzo Rook

University of Florence

Joan Madurell‐Malapeira

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Bienvenido Martínez‐Navarro

Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

María Prat-Vericat

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

A. Faggi

University of Florence

Paul Palmqvist

Universidad de Málaga

Qigao Jiangzuo

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

Samuele Frosali

University of Florence

Leonardo Sorbelli

Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

David Lordkipanidze

Tbilisi State University

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Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont

Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social

University of Florence

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Universidad Rovira i Virgili

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sapienza University of Rome

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Mohamed I University

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

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Expeditious survey of historic timber roofs. An applied research for Palazzo San Felice in Pavia, Italy

Marco Morandotti E Zamperini Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Marta D’Andrea

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NEW INSIGHTS ON THE ENIGMATIC OTTERS FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF TUSCANY: <em>TYRRHENOLUTRA MAREMMANA</em> NOV. COMB. (LUTRINAE, MUSTELIDAE, CARNIVORA), WITH A PHYLOGENY OF BUNODONT OTTERS

RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA (2024)

A. Faggi Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Lorenzo Rook

Otters, subfamily Lutrinae (Mustelidae), are predators that thrive in aquatic environments, and have a semiaquatic to fully aquatic lifestyle. While modern otters are found across the globe, their fossil history is limited, primarily documented by fragmented dentognathic remains. In this work, we report on and describe new dental remains of a medium-sized Lutrinae from the Late Miocene of Baccinello and Casteani (Tuscany), improving the poor fossil record of the subfamily in Europe. Tyrrhenolutra helbingi Hürzeler, 1987 is a poorly known species, described on some dental remains from the Baccinello mines and a few other localities. Considering its peculiar morphology, it has often been overlooked in the scientific literature. Description of the material stored at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel and Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia dell’Università di Firenze offers new insights on the intraspecific variability and dental morphology of this taxon. The comparative study of these findings highlights several morphological and biometrical similarities between T. helbingi and Paludolutra maremmana Hürzeler, 1987, which allow us to redefine these taxa as Tyrrhenolutra maremmana nov. comb. We carried out a total-evidence cladistic analysis seeking support for morphometric and morphological similarities between T. “helbingi” and “P.” maremmana. The resulting parsimony analyses support the synonymy, excluding a close relationship of T. maremmana with Paludolutra of Italy and Spain, as previously thought. Furthermore, we confirm a long-forgotten hypothesis identifying Limnonyx Crusafont Pairó, 1950 as the possible continental ancestor of Tyrrhenolutra.

Mustelidae

10.54103/2039-4942/22479

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Latest Early Pleistocene wolf-like canids from the Iberian Peninsula

Quaternary Science Reviews (2017)

Saverio Bartolini Lucenti David M. Alba Lorenzo Rook Salvador Moyà‐Solà Joan Madurell‐Malapeira

Early Pleistocene

Peninsula

10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.023

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The Fox from Bajiazui (Qingyang, Central China) and an Update on Early Pleistocene Foxes from China

Quaternary (2023)

Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Qigao Jiangzuo Hao Jiang Zhaoyu Li Kun Xie

(1) Background: despite the fact that nowadays the genus Vulpes Frisch, 1775, is the most diverse among extant Canidae, its fossil record is utterly scarce, especially in the Asian Pliocene. The sparse nature of this record further complicates the reconstruction of the evolutionary scenario to fit these taxa with extant species. The situation seems to change slightly in the Early Pleistocene when two species are recorded: Vulpes alopecoides (Del Campana, 1913) in Europe and Vulpes chikushanensis, Young, 1930, in Asian localities. Unlike the former, which has an extensive record, the remains of the Chinese V. chikushanensis are sporadic and the validity of the taxon has also been questioned. (2) Methods: the study of the specimens from the Early Pleistocene site of Bajiazui (1.8–1.2 Ma, Qingyang, Gansu) in comparison to an extensive sample of Vulpes spp. The Pliocene–Early Pleistocene is relevant for the delimitation of fossil foxes variability; (3) Results: morphologically and morphometrically, the specimens of Bajiazui fit with the specimens of V. chikushanensis from other Chinese localities of the Early Pleistocene, e.g., Longdan (Gansu) and Huiyu (Fangshang), highlighting some difference with the latest Early Pleistocene forms of Jigushan fox; (4) Conclusions: the revision of the Asian fossil record of Vulpes is crucial in our attempt to understand and reconstruct the evolution of carnivoran guild during the late Early Pleistocene (1.8–0.8 Ma). The fox remains from Bajiazui, although fragmentary, add a valuable piece to our knowledge of V. chikushanensis, a species possibly strongly related to the extant Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768).

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10.3390/quat6040057

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"Canis" ferox Revisited: Diet Ecomorphology of Some Long Gone (Late Miocene and Pliocene) Fossil Dogs

Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2020)

Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Lorenzo Rook

Ecomorphology

10.1007/s10914-020-09500-1

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Massive early Middle Pleistocene cheetah from eastern Asia shed light onto the evolution of Acinonyx in Eurasia

Quaternary Science Reviews (2024)

Qigao Jiangzuo Yaming Wang Joan Madurell‐Malapeira Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Shijie Li

Acinonyx jubatus

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10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108661

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Quaternary Eurasian badgers: Intraspecific variability and species validity

Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2024)

A. Faggi Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Joan Madurell‐Malapeira Alexei V. Abramov A. Yu. Puzachenko

10.1007/s10914-023-09696-y

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Pleistocene foxes (Vulpes, Canidae, Carnivora) from the Taurida Cave, Crimea

Doklady Biological Sciences (2021)

Д. О. Гимранов Saverio Bartolini Lucenti А. В. Лавров Б. А. Вахрушев А. В. Лопатин

10.1134/s0012496621050045

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The Pliocene canid Cerdocyon avius was not the type of fox that we thought

Figshare (2020)

Damián Ruiz-Ramoni Francisco J. Prevosti Saverio Bartolini Lucenti Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros Ana Luisa Carreño

During the 1980s, a Pliocene canid from Baja California Sur, Mexico, was described as a new Cerdocyon species, C. avius. Whereas some investigators believe that C. avius was related to the origin of South American foxes of the tribe Cerdocyonina, others suggested that it is related to members of the tribe Vulpini. Our observations and analyses confirm that it is a vulpine with a morphological combination of features that has not been described previously: marked subangular lobe in the hemimandible, m1 hypoconulid is practically absent, and the m3 is single-cusped. We propose Ferrucyon, gen. nov., as a genus including at present one species, F. avius. In the phylogenetic analysis, this species is related to North American Metalopex macconnelli, and to the Eurasian Nyctereutes spp., which creates a relationship between the foxes of the Old and New World.

10.6084/m9.figshare.12848670

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The Late Pleistocene Canis lupus (Canidae, Mammalia) from Avetrana (Apulia, Italy): reappraisal and new insights on the European glacial wolves

Italian Journal of Geosciences (2017)

Beniamino Mecozzi Saverio Bartolini Lucenti

The modern wolf, Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758, has one of the largest ranges amongst carnivorans, and for this reason it shows local and regional differences for adaptation to a great variety of habitats, ranging from the arctic tundra to the Arabian desert. These differences are particularly evident as wolves follow the Bergmann's ecogeographical rule, with low latitude populations being generally smaller than those living at high latitudes. The fossil record of the modern wolf dates back to the second half of the Middle Pleistocene. The earliest records come from the French site Lunel-Viel 1 and are ascribed to the subspecies Canis lupus lunellensis Bonifay, 1971, and from the Italian Polledrara di Cecanibbio. These Middle Pleistocene forms were generally small in size, slightly larger than the last representative of Canis mosbachensis Soergel, 1925. During the last 400 kyr, European continental environments were profoundly affected by the glacial/interglacial cycles and much evidence suggests a trend toward a size increase for C. lupus. In particular, a number of these European large-sized wolves seem to be typical of cold phases, for example, Canis lupus maximus Boudadi-Maligne, 2012 from the OIS 3-2. The aim of the present study was to describe the morphological and morphometric variability of C. lupus from Avetrana bed 8 in comparison to other populations from northern and southern Italy, as well as from other localities in Europe, to obtain a better understanding of the biochronology, palaeobiogeography and evolution of this large carnivore in the last 125 kyr. The morphological and morphometric analyses pointed out the difference of C. lupus of Avetrana compared to the Apulian and to the Northern Italian wolves but also identified a marked affinity with the C. lupus of the glacial site Cardamone (Apulia), referred to OIS 2. This similarity support the idea of the dispersal of large morphotypes (glacial wolves) during cold phases.

10.3301/ijg.2017.22

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