{"pk":41743,"title":"The first records of \nSinclairella\n (Apatemyidae) from the Pacific Northwest, USA","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Apatemyidae are a rare and enigmatic group of small insectivorous mammals that lived in North America and Europe in the Paleogene. The last known apatemyids in North America are two species in the genus \nSinclairella\n, known from sites in the Great Plains and Florida. Here, I formally describe an upper second molar and lower incisor of the apatemyid, \nSinclairella dakotensis\n, from the incredibly well-studied Turtle Cove Member of the John Day Formation in Oregon. These early Arikareean age specimens represent the first records of the family west of the Rocky Mountains. \nSinclairella dakotensis\n filled a ‘woodpecking’ niche unlike any other mammal known from the region, and its co-occurrence with a number of forest-adapted mammal species is consistent with previous interpretations of environments at the time having been dominated by woodlands.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-SA 4.0","text":"<p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p>\n<p>Readers are free to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Share</strong> — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format</li>\n<li><strong>Adapt</strong> — remix, transform, and build upon the material<br><br>The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Under the following terms:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Attribution</strong> — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.</li>\n<li><strong>NonCommercial</strong> — You may not use the material for commercial purposes .</li>\n<li><strong>ShareAlike</strong> — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.<br><br>No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Notices:</p>\n<p>You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.</p>\n<p>No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.</p>","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Apatotheria, apatemyid, John Day Formation, Turtle Cove Member, Arikareean"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15f034zz","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"X.","last_name":"Samuels","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Geosciences, Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology, \nEast Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S.A 37615.","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2021-05-19T17:16:59-04:00","date_accepted":"2021-05-19T17:16:59-04:00","date_published":"2021-05-19T03:00:00-04:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucmp_paleobios/article/41743/galley/31215/download/"}]}