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Main Points 1) Mammalian Characteristics: Diversity, Phylogeny, and Systematics: -- Infraclass Eutheria -- Orders Scandentia through Cetacea 2) The Great American Interchange -- dispersal versus vicariance -- example: recent range expansion of nine-banded armadillos 3) Evolution of body size on islands -- the island rule -- example: sloth evolution in the Caribbean 4) Terms: arboreal, saltatorial, myrmecophagy, folivory, dispersal,
vicariance, island rule, cursorial, ruminant, cecum, Cetartiodactyla Pre-reading: Wednesday 16 Sep = Sykes et al 2014, MacLeod 2014 Monday 21 Sep = Nagasawa et al 2015
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Subclass Theria, Infraclass Eutheria
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Order Scandentia: tree shrews
Taxonomy: 1 family, 19 species Distribution: Oriental Characteristics: -- arboreal -- highest brain:body mass of any group of mammals
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large tree shrew
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Order Lagomorpha: hares, rabbits, pikas
Taxonomy: 2 families, 80 species Distribution: cosmopolitan, except Australasia Characteristics: -- incisors grow continuously -- saltatorial with hind limbs longer than forelimbs
American pika black-tailed jackrabbit mountain cottontail
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Order Rodentia: rodents
Taxonomy: 29 families, 2024 species Distribution: cosmopolitan Characteristics: -- incisors grow continuously throughout life -- skull and jaw musculature adapted for gnawing
naked mole rat capybara
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Lord Derby’s anomalure
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Order Cingulata: armadillos
Taxonomy: 1 family, 21 species Distribution: Neotropical, 1 species Nearctic Characteristics: -- bony plates on head and body -- myrmecophagous
fairy armadillo
giant armadillo screaming hairy armadillo
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The Great American Interchange
• Joining of Nearctic and Neotropical zoogeographic regions roughly 3 MYA -- many Nearctic taxa migrated southward; few Neotropical taxa migrated northward -- mass extinctions of Neotropical metatherians
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Recent range expansion by the nine-banded armadillo
nine-banded armadillo
Taulman and Robbins 1996
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1994
• Northward expansion of 10 km/year since 1940s
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Recent range expansion by the nine-banded armadillo
Taulman and Robbins 1996
1972
1994
• Northward expansion of 10 km/year since 1940s
• Ultimately might be limited by rainfall (to the west) and
temperature (to the north)
Red = 2009 distribution Pink = predicted future distribution
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• Dispersal (biogeographic context) = migration across preexisting geographic
barriers
Historical Biogeography—Dispersal vs. Vicariance
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• Dispersal (biogeographic context) = migration across preexisting geographic
barriers
Historical Biogeography—Dispersal vs. Vicariance
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• Vicariance = formation of geographic barriers across preexisting geographic ranges
Historical Biogeography—Dispersal vs. Vicariance
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• Vicariance = formation of geographic barriers across preexisting geographic ranges
Historical Biogeography—Dispersal vs. Vicariance
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Order Pilosa: true anteaters and sloths
giant anteater
silky anteater two-toed sloth
Taxonomy: 4 families, 10 species Distribution: Neotropical
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Order Pilosa: true anteaters and sloths
giant anteater silky anteater two-toed sloth
Characteristics: -- incomplete zygomatic arches -- no enamel on cheek teeth -- myrmecophagous (anteaters) or folivorous (sloths)
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Evolution of Gigantism and Dwarfism
brown-throated sloth (~7 kg) pygmy sloth (~3 kg)
-- island rule = on islands, the tendency for small species to increase in size (gigantism), and large species to decrease in size (dwarfism), over evolutionary time scales
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Evolution of Gigantism and Dwarfism
brown-throated sloth (~7 kg) pygmy sloth (~3 kg)
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Discussion question: come up with a hypothesis for the island rule. What does your hypothesis predict?
brown-throated sloth (~7 kg) pygmy sloth (~3 kg)
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Evolution of Gigantism and Dwarfism
Anderson and Handley 2002
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Evolution of Gigantism and Dwarfism
wood mouse (15 g)
island wood mouse (35 g)
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Order Artiodactyla: even-toed ungulates
Taxonomy: 10 families, 220 species Distribution: cosmopolitan, excepting Australasia Characteristics: -- cursorial or aquatic -- weight borne on 3rd and 4th digit -- many with ruminant stomach or cecum
musk deer
bactrian camel river hippopotamus bighorn sheep
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Discussion question: Wong describes the history of how artiodactyls (and hippos in particular) were discovered to be
ancestral to whales.
To you, what was the most convincing piece of evidence for this?
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Discussion question: Wong describes the history of how artiodactyls (and hippos in particular) were discovered to be ancestral to whales. To you, what was the most convincing
piece of evidence for this?
fossil whale fossil whale pronghorn
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Cetartiodactyla
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Taxonomy: 10 families, 78 species Distribution: Oceanic, rivers of Neotropical and
Oriental Characteristics: -- fusiform body with modified forelimbs and vestigial
hind limbs -- posterior migration of external nares
Order Cetacea: whales, dolphins, porpoises
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Taxonomy: 6 families, 67 species Distribution: Oceanic, rivers of Neotropical and Oriental
regions Characteristics: -- single narial opening -- homodont dentition -- echolocation
Suborder Odontoceti: toothed whales
narwals orca and harbor porpoise
baiji
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Taxonomy: 4 families, 11 species Distribution: Oceanic (no rivers) Characteristics: -- two narial openings -- baleen
Suborder Mysticeti: baleen whales
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blue whale
bowhead whale
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Characteristics: -- lunge feeding = feeding method in which whale
accelerates toward food, expands mouth, gulps and then filters huge amounts of water and food.
Suborder Mysticeti: baleen whales
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Discovery of a New Organ (?!?) in a Vertebrate
Pyenson et al 2012