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ArticleJournal of mammalian evolution2022

The Thorny Issue of African Porcupines: a New Mandible of

Beatrice Azzarà, Marco Cherin, Justin Adams, Giovanni Boschian, Marco Crotti, Christiane Denys, Lorenzo Fressoia, Jackson S Kimambo, Amandus Kwekason, Dawid A Iurino and 6 more

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Article in Journal of mammalian evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Beatrice AzzaràDipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, Perugia, 06123 Italy.
Marco CherinDipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, Perugia, 06123 Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4291-4372
Justin AdamsDepartment of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, 3800 Australia.
Giovanni BoschianPalaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006 South Africa.
Marco CrottiInstitute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ UK.
Christiane DenysInstitut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université Des Antilles, CP 51, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France.
Lorenzo FressoiaDipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, Perugia, 06123 Italy.
Jackson S KimamboDipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli, Perugia, 06123 Italy.
Amandus KwekasonNational Museum of Tanzania, Shaban Robert Street, P.O. Box 511, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Dawid A IurinoPaleoFactory, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, Roma, 00185 Italy.
Giorgio ManziDipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, Roma, 00185 Italy.
Fidelis T MasaoDepartment of Archaeology & Heritage, College of Humanities, University of Dar Es Salaam, P.O. Box 35050, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Sahleselasie MelakuAuthority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH), National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Sofia MenconeroDipartimento di Storia, Disegno e Restauro dell'Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazza Borghese 9, Roma, 00186 Italy.
Emiliano MoriConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri, Via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), 50019 Italy.
Bernhard ZipfelEvolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several porcupine taxa are reported from the middle Miocene to the early Holocene in the Old World. Among these, five species of the subfamily Hystricinae occurred in Africa approximately in the last 6 Ma: the extinct Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10914-021-09588-z.

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AfricaHystricidaeHystricinaePaleontologyTanzania

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PMID35079214
PMCPMC8776392

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