Bodyweight evolution of the Geiseltal Perissodactyla (Eocene, Germany)

A recent study by Ring et al. (2020) suggested the oppositve bodyweight evolution of Hippomorpha and Tapiromorpha perissodactyls at Geiseltal over the course of ~ 5 Myrs. In their paper however, they did not analyse at the species level and some raw data seem misleading. The study consist at reanalysing the data in the light of taxonomic and stratigraphic corrections This is part of a bachelor thesis

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Field	Value
Taxonomic coverage
Order	Perissodactyla
General taxonomic description	Tapiromorpha (e.g. Lophiodon) and Hippomorpha (e.g. Propalaeotherium)
Other info
Last Updated	October 22, 2024, 09:48 (UTC)
Created	October 22, 2024, 08:47 (UTC)
Academic level	Bachelor Thesis

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name	Thomas Lehmann
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department Messel Research and Mammalogy Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Associated party
Name	Lina Muntaniol
Role	Principal investigator
Associated party
Name	Krister Smith
Organization affiliations	Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department Messel Research and Mammalogy Senckenberganlage 25 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Role	Author

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project	Numeric (spreadsheet, measurements, etc.) , N , u , m , e , r , i , c , , ( , s , p , a , d , h , t , , , n , . , )
Estimated volume of created data	<1GB
Data will be stored at (long-term archived)	On the Dropbox of the Sektion Paläomammalogie

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https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/3c05f527-077f-4af3-b41e-a53d96a774c0