Longer in the tooth, shorter in the record? The evolutionary correlates of hypsodonty in neogene ruminants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1724, 2011, Pages 3474-3481

  Raia, P ^a   Carotenuto, F ^a   Eronen, J T ^b   Fortelius, M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hypsodonty; Key innovation; Neogene old world database; Ruminants; Species duration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; CORRELATION; DATABASE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; NEOGENE; PALEONTOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; RUMINANT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOOTH;

BOVIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 80054928937     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0273     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Erwin, D. H. 1992 A preliminary classification of evolutionary radiations. Hist. Biol. 6, 133-147. (doi:10.1080/10292389209380423)
2. Hunter, J. P. 1998 Key innovations and the ecology of macroevolution. Trends Ecol. Evol. 13, 31-36. (doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(97)01273-1)
3. Donoghue, M. J. 2005 Key innovations, convergence, and success: macroevolutionary lessons from plantphylogeny. Paleobiology 31, 77-93. (doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2005)031[0077:KICASM]2.0.CO;2)
4. Heard, S. B. & Hauser, D. L. 1995 Key evolutionaryinnovations and their ecological mechanisms. Hist. Biol. 10, 151-173. (doi:10.1080/10292389509380518)
5. de Queiroz, A. 2002 Contingent predictability in evolution: key traits and diversification. Syst. Biol. 51, 917-929. (doi:10.1080/10635150290155980)
6. Ricklefs, R. E. 2003 Global diversification rates of passerine birds. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 270, 2285-2291. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2489)
7. Ree, R. H. 2005 Detecting the historical signature of key innovations using stochastic models of character evolution and cladogenesis. Evolution 59, 257-265. (doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb00986.x)
8. Vermeij, G. J. 2006 Historical contingency and the purported uniqueness of evolutionary innovations. Proc.Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 1804-1809. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0508724103)
9. Simpson, G. G. 1953 The major features of evolution. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. (doi:10.1126/science.119.3098.699-a).
10. MacFadden, B. J. 2000 Cenozoic mammalian faunas from the Americas: reconstructing ancient diets and terrestrialcommunities. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31, 33-59. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.33)
11. Jernvall, J. & Fortelius, M. 2002 Common mammals drive the evolutionary increase of hypsodonty in the Neogene. Nature 417, 538-540. (doi:10.1038/417538a)
12. Bouchenak-Khelladi, Y., Verboom, G. A., Hodkinson, T. R., Salamin, N., Francois, O., Chonghaile, G. N. & Savolainen, V. 2009 The origins and diversification of C4 grasses and savanna-adapted ungulates. GlobalChange Biol. 15, 2397-2417. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01860.x)
13. Janis, C. M. 1989 A climatic explanation for patterns of evolutionary diversity in ungulate mammals. Palaeontology 32, 463-481.
14. Eronen, J. T., Evans, A. R., Fortelius, M. & Jernvall, J. 2010 The impact of regional climate on the evolutionof mammals: a case study using fossil horses. Evolution 64, 398-408. (doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00830.x)
15. Janis, C. M. 2008 An evolutionary history of browsing and grazing ungulates. In The ecology of browsing and grazing (eds I. J. Gordon & H. H. T. Prins), pp. 21-45. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
16. Demment, M. W. & Van Soest, P. J. 1985 A nutritional explanation for body-size patterns of ruminant and nonruminant herbivores. Am. Nat. 125, 641-672. (doi:10.1086/284369)
17. Clauss, M., Frey, R., Kiefer, B., Lechner-Doll, M., Loehlein, W., Polster, C., Rössner, G. E. & Streich, W. J. 2003 The maximum attainable body size of herbivorous mammals: morphophysiological constraints on foregut, and adaptations of hindgut fermenters. Oecologia 136, 14-27. (doi:10.1007/s00442-003-1254-z)
18. Clauss, M. & Hummel, J. 2005 The digestive performance of mammalian herbivores: why big may not bethat much better. Mammal. Rev. 35, 174-187. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.2005.00062.x)
19. Feranec, R. S. 2007 Ecological generalization during adaptive radiation: evidence from Neogene mammals. Evol. Ecol. Res. 9, 555-577.
20. Schluter, D. 2000 The ecology of adaptive radiation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
21. Fortelius, M. 2010 Neogene of the Old World Database of fossil mammals (NOW). University of Helsinki (coordinator). See http://www.helsinki.fi/science/now/.
22. Jernvall, J. & Fortelius, M. 2004 Maintenance of trophic structure in fossil mammal communities: site occupancyand taxon resilience. Am. Nat. 164, 614-624. (doi:10.1086/424967)
23. Carotenuto, F., Barbera, C. & Raia, P. 2010 Occupancy, range size and phylogeny in Eurasian Pliocene to Recent large mammals. Paleobiology 36, 399-414. (doi:10.1666/09059.1)
24. Raia, P., Meloro, C., Loy, A. & Barbera, C. 2006 Species occupancy and its course in the past: macroecological patterns in extinct communities. Evol. Ecol. Res. 8, 181-194.
25. Lyons, S. K. & Smith, F. A. 2010 Using macro ecological approach to study geographic range, abundance and body size in the fossil record. In Quantitative methods for studying paleobiology (eds J. Alroy & G. Hunt), pp. 117-141. Pittsburgh, PA: The Paleonotolgoical Society.
26. Lavin, S. R., Karasov, W. H., Ives, A. R., Middleton, K. M. & Garland, T. 2008 Morpho metrics of the avian small intestine compared with that of non flying mammals: aphylogenetic approach. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 81, 526-550. (doi:10.1086/590395)
27. Pagel, M. 1999 Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution. Nature 401, 877-884. (doi:10.1038/44766)
28. Freckleton, R. P., Harvey, P. H. & Pagel, M. 2002 Phylogenetic analysis and comparative data: a test and review of evidence. Am. Nat. 60, 712-726. (doi:10.1086/343873)
29. Getz, W. M. & Wilmers, C. C. 2004 A local nearest neighbor convex-hull construction of home ranges and utilization distributions. Ecography 27, 489-505. (doi:10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03835.x)
30. Getz, W. M., Fortmann-Roe, S., Cross, P. C., Lyons, A. J., Ryan, S. J. & Wilmers, C. C. 2007 LoCoH: nonparametric kernel methods for constructing home ranges and utilization distributions. PLoS ONE 2, e207. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000207)
31. Fortelius, M., Gionis, A., Jernvall, J. & Mannila, H. 2006 Spectral ordering and biochronology of European fossil mammals. Paleobiology 32, 206-214. (doi:10.1666/04087.1)
32. Pagel, M. 1997 Inferring evolutionary processes from phylogenies. Zool. Scr. 26, 331-348. (doi:10.1111/j. 1463-6409.1997.tb00423.x)
33. Paradis, E. 2005 Statistical analysis of diversification with species traits. Evolution 59, 1-12. (doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb00889.x)
34. Maddison, W. P., Midford, P. E. & Otto, S. P. 2007 Estimating a binary character's effect on speciationand extinction. Syst. Biol. 56, 701-710. (doi:10.1080/10635150701607033)
35. Goldberg, E. E. & Igić, B. 2008 On phylogenetic tests ofirreversible evolution. Evolution 62, 2727-2741. (doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00505.x)
36. FitzJohn, R. G., Maddison, W. P. & Otto, S. P. 2009 Estimating trait-dependent speciation and extinctionrates from incompletely resolved phylogenies. Syst. Biol. 58, 595-611. (doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp067)
37. Damuth, J. & Mcfadden, B. J. 1990 Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
38. Raia, P., Carotenuto, F., Meloro, C., Piras, P., Barbera, C. & Kotsakis, T. 2009 More than three million yearsof community evolution. The temporal and geographical resolution of the Plio-Pleistocene Western Eurasia mammal faunas. Palaeog. Palaeoclim. Palaeoecol. 276,15-23. (doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.005)
39. Barnosky, A. D., Carrasco, M. A. & Davis, E. B. 2005 The impact of the species-area relationship on estimatesof paleodiversity. PLoS Biol. 3, e266. (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030266)
40. Raia, P., Carotenuto, F., Meloro, C., Piras, P. & Barbera, C. 2011 Species accumulation over space and time inEuropean Plio-Holocene mammals. Evol. Ecol. 25, 171-188. (doi:10.1007/s10682-010-9392-3)
41. Van Valen, L. 1960 A functional index of hypsodonty. Evolution 14, 531-532. (doi:10.2307/2406003)
42. Calenge, C. 2006 The package adehabitat for the R software: a tool for the analysis of space and habitat use by animals. Ecol. Model. 197, 516-519. (doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.03.017)
43. Blomberg, S. P. & Garland, T. 2002 Tempo and mode in evolution: phylogenetic inertia, adaptation and comparative methods. J. Evol. Biol. 15, 899-909. (doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2002.00472.x)
44. Felsenstein, J. 1985 Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am. Nat. 125, 1-15. (doi:10.1086/284325)
45. Lavin, S. R., Karasov, W. H., Ives, A. R., Middleton, K. M. & Garland, T. 2008 Mor phometrics of the avian small intestine compared with that of non flying mammals: a phylo genetic approach. Physiol. Biochem.Zool. 81, 526-550. (doi:10.1086/590395)
46. Blomberg, S. P., Garland, T. & Ives, A. R. 2003 Testingfor phylogenetic signal in comparative data: behavioural traits are more labile. Evolution 47, 717-745. (doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00285.x)
47. Foote, M. 2007 Symmetric waxing and waning of marineinvertebrate genera. Paleobiology 33, 517-529. (doi:10.1666/06084.1)
48. Foote, M., Crampton, J. S., Beu, A. G., Marshall, B. A., Cooper, R. A. & Matcham, I. 2007 Rise and fall of species occupancy in Cenozoic marine molluscs. Science 318, 1131-1134. (doi:10.1126/science.1146303)
49. Barraclough, T. G. & Vogler, A. P. 2000 Detecting the geographical pattern of speciation from species-level phylogenies. Am. Nat. 155, 419-434. (doi:10.1086/303332)
50. Vrba, E. S. 1980 Evolution, species and fossils: how does ife evolve? S. Afr. J. Sci. 76, 61-84.