Chapter 6 Appendix 6.S1, J. Saarinen.xlsx

First and last occurrences, body mass estimates and averaged dietary categoris of Proboscidea from the late Oligocene to present from Africa and Eurasia. The first and last occurrrences are based on literature sources that are listed in the table. The body mass estimates are based on limb bone measurements (Christiansen, 2004), occipital condyle widths (Jukar et al., 2018) and molar measurements (new methods introduced for the purpose of this dataset, see the main text of Huang et al. (2023)). The dietary categories are based on NOW-database data complemented with new information from recent paleodietary research (Saarinen and Lister, in review). <br> References: -Christiansen, P. (2004). Body size in proboscideans, with notes on elephant metabolism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 140, 523–549. -Huang, S., Eyres, A., Fritz, S.A., Eronen, J.T., Saarinen, J. (2023). Chapter 6 - Environmental Change and Body Size Evolution in Neogene Large Mammals.In: Casanovas-Vilar, I., Van den Hoek Ostende, L., Janis, C.M. and Saarinen, J. (eds.) Evolution of Cenozoic land mammal faunas and ecosystems - 25 years of the NOW database of fossil mammals. Springer. -Jukar, A.M., Lyons, S.K., &amp; Uhen, M.D. (2018). A cranial correlate of body mass in proboscideans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 184, 919–931. -Saarinen, J., Lister, A.M. (in review). Adaptive trends and the evolutionary ratchet: how elephants learnt to eat grass. Communications Biology (in review 16.3.2023) <br>