@article{426d19a4d01848598a13623c29eaf947,
title = "The shrew pleads {\textquoteleft}not guilty{\textquoteright} to the mole{\textquoteright}s murder: comment on Benn{\`a}sar et al. (2015)",
abstract = "The damage on the surface of a mole fossil humerus from the early Pleistocene site of Sima del Elefante (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) has been recently interpreted as bite marks of the extinct shrew Beremendia fissidens. The present work considers this attribution not evident, and it stresses some doubts on the feasibility of a shrew leaving bite marks on a bone using its incisors, as well as the physical and ethological inconsistencies that it would imply.",
keywords = "Atapuerca, Beremendia, taphonomy, venomous mammal",
author = "Marc Furi{\'o}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Ag?ncia de Gesti? d?Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca [2014 SGR 416 GRC] of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Special thanks go to the two reviewers who helped improving the original manuscript and Editors-in-Chief Ewa Krzeminska, Peter K?nigshof, Gilles Scarguel and Andrzej Kaim (Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Geobios, and Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, respectively), Tim Palmer (Executive Officer of the Palaeontological Association, Palaeontologia Electronica) and Reinhard Ziegler (Staatliches Museum f?r Naturkunde Stuttgart) for their kind help to reproduce the images included in Figure 1. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
month = feb,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1080/08912963.2016.1151016",
language = "English",
volume = "29",
pages = "230--233",
journal = "Historical Biology",
issn = "0891-2963",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "2",
}
