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We thank the Jerada Government and Local Authorities of Ain B~eni Mathar and Guefait for local permits to develop geological, archaeological and paleontological fieldworks in the region. The authors thank Prof. S. Roussakis, who sent us pictures and measurements of Greek Metailurus specimens and Elena Moreno for the preparation of the fossils. For access to the surface scan data of Dinofelis barlowi and D. piveteaui, we thank Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, South Africa and Justin Adams of the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Australia. This work has been funded by Palarq Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport (Ref: 42T002018N0000042853 and 170-T002019N0000038589), Direction of Cultural Heritage (Ministry of Culture and Communication, Morocco), Faculty of Sciences (Mohamed of University of Oujda, Morocco), INSAP (Institut National des Sciences de l'Archeologie et du Patrimoine), Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Ref: CGL2016-80975-P, CGL2016-80000-P, PGC2018-095489-B-I00 and PGC2018-093925-B-C31), Agencia Estatal de Investigacion-European Regional Development Fund of the European Union (CGL2017-82654-P, AEI/FEDER-UE), the Generalitat de Catalunya (CERCA Program) which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP7 "Capacities" Program and Research Groups Support (2017 SGR 836 and 2017 SGR 859). R.S-R, M.G.CH., and P.S. research is funded by CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. J.M.-M. is member of consolidated research group 2017 SGR 116 (AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya). A.R.-H. is the beneficiary of a postdoctoral scholarship from the MICINN, Subprograma Juan de la Cierva (IJC-037447-I) and member of the Consolidated Research Group 2017 SGR 1040 of the Generalitat de Catalunya. A.M.A and M.F. are beneficiaries of a fellowship from the Erasmus Mundus Program to do the Master in Quaternary and Prehistory at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). The Institut Catal~a de Paleoecologia Humana i Evoluci~o Social (IPHES-CERCA) has received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the `Maria de Maeztu' program for Units of Excellence (CEX2019-000945-M).

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First small-sized Dinofelis: Evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of North Africa

Publicado en:Quaternary Science Reviews. 265 - 2021-08-01 265(), DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107028

Autores: Madurell-Malapeira, Joan; Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Antonio; Aouraghe, Hassan; Haddoumi, Hamid; Lucenti, Saverio Bartolini; Oujaa, Aicha; Saladie, Palmira; Bengamra, Said; Marin, Juan; Souhir, Mohamed; Farkouch, Mourad; Mhamdi, Hicham; Aissa, Al Mahdi; Werdelin, Lars; Gema Chacon, M.; Sala-Ramos, Robert;

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We describe small-sized specimens of the metailurine felid Dinofelis from a new Plio-Pleistocene site in North Africa. Dinofelis is a genus of saber-toothed cats mainly recorded from East and South Africa with numerous leopard to jaguar-sized species. The described specimens, clearly smaller than all the other African Dinofelis, resemble isolated remains from the Late Pliocene of France and the Early Pleistocene of Africa. Present evidence suggests that our form represents a new species and/or new lineage of Dinofelis, smaller and probably occupying a different ecological niche compared to the previously known members of the genus, and thus it adds complexity to the high intraspecific competition among large carnivorans in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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