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Journal Article
Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America
2011
Overview
The evolution of high-crowned molars among horses (Family Equidae) is thought to be an adaptation for abrasive diets associated with the spread of grasslands. The sharpness and relief of the worn cusp apices of teeth (mesowear) are a measure of dietary abrasion. We collected mesowear data for North American Equidae for the past 55.5 million years to test the association of molar height and dietary abrasion. Mesowear trends in horses are reflective of global cooling and associated vegetation changes. There is a strong correlation between mesowear and crown height in horses; however, most horse paleopopulations had highly variable amounts of dietary abrasion, suggesting that selective pressures for crown height may have been weak much of the time. However, instances of higher abrasion were observed in some paleopopulations, suggesting intervals of stronger selection for the evolution of dentitions, including the early Miocene shortly before the first appearance of Equinae, the horse subfamily in which high-crowned dentitions evolved.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subject
/ Animals
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Cenozoic
/ Climate
/ Diet
/ Equidae
/ Equidae - anatomy & histology
/ Exact sciences and technology
/ Fossils
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution
/ Grasses
/ Habitats
/ Horses
/ Horses - anatomy & histology
/ Miocene
/ Poaceae
/ Spreads
/ Teeth
