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Tytuł:: Tapirs from the Pleistocene of Venezuela
Autorzy:: Holanda, E.C.
Rincon, A.D.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20061.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2012
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: tapir
Tapirus terrestris
Pleistocene
Venezuela
Mammalia
Perissodactyla
Tapirus
El Breal de Orocual
Zumbador Cave
locality
paleontology
remains
systematics
tooth
measurement
morphometric analysis
Opis:: The living tapir Tapirus terrestrisis widely distributed in Venezuela, occurring mainly south of the Orinoco, while being absent from arid, high Andean and insular areas. Here, we describe new material of fossil tapirs from two Pleistocene localities of Venezuela: Zumbador Cave and El Breal de Orocual. Based on its size and morphology, the material from Zumbador Cave (skull, mandible and postcrania) is assigned to the extant T. terrestris, and represents the most northwestern fossil record of this species in South America. By contrast, the remains from the tar seep of El Breal de Orocual are more gracile, and differ from T. terrestris and other fossil and living species from South America in the presence of a metastylid on the lower cheek teeth. We tentatively assign the latter remains to Tapirussp., based on juvenile and isolated dentary material. However, the possibility that these specimens may represent a new species or an immigrant from North America cannot be completely excluded.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2012, 57, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: A termite from the Late Oligocene of northern Ethiopia
Autorzy:: Engel, M.S.
Pan, A.D.
Jacobs, B.F.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20549.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2013
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: termite
Late Oligocene
Ethiopia
Stolotermitidae
fossil record
geological setting
paleontology
Chilgatermes diamatensis
Opis:: Termites of the family Stolotermitidae are a relict lineage of primitive Isoptera. The fossil record of Stolotermitidae is exceptionally poor, with only two Miocene (Neogene) species documented to date. Herein, a new genus and species of Paleogene termites is described and figured from the Late Oligocene (28–27 Ma, Early Chattian) of northwestern Ethiopia (Amhara Region, Chilga Woreda). Chilgatermes diamatensis gen. et sp. nov., is most similar to genera of the Stolotermitidae, Archotermopsidae, and Termopsidae but can be distinguished on the basis of forewing venational details. The genus is tentatively placed in the Stolotermitidae: Porotermitinae. Chilgatermes diamatensis is the first fossil termite from Ethiopia and, indeed, the first from the entire African continent.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2013, 58, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Diversity dynamics of Early-Middle Jurassic brachiopods of Caucasus, and the Pliensbachian-Toarcian mass extinction
Autorzy:: Ruban, D A
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21213.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2004
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: taxonomic diversity
brachiopod
Early-Middle Jurassic
Russia
mass extinction
Caucasus Mountains
Jurassic
Brachiopoda
paleontology
Opis:: Taxonomic diversity of NW Caucasus brachiopods changed cyclically in the Early–Middle Jurassic. Diversifications took place in the Late Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian, Middle–Late Toarcian and Late Aalenian–Early Bajocian, while diversity decreases occured in Late Pliensbachian–Early Toarcian, Early Aalenian and Late Bajocian. Outstanding diversity decline in the Late Pliensbachian–Early Toarcian corresponds to a global mass extinction interval, whose peak has been documented in the Early Toarcian. Similar diversity changes of brachiopods are observed in other Tethyan regions, including the well−studied Bakony Mountains, although in NW Caucasus the recovery after demise have begun earlier. The causes of Pl−To mass extinction in the studied region are enigmatic. Probably, it could be linked to anoxia, but its correspondence to the beginning of transgression is not coincident with the global record, so eustatic causes seem to be doubtful for this region.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2004, 49, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: First record of a basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan
Autorzy:: Averianov, A
Sues, H.D.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/23104.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2009
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: paleontology
first record
neoceratopsian dinosaur
dinosaur
Late Cretaceous
Cretaceous
Kazakhstan
systematics
Aral Sea
Opis:: The oldest known ceratopsians come from the Late Jurassic of China (Zhao et al. 1999; Xu et al. 2006). During the Early Cretaceous, the basal ceratopsian Psittacosaurus was among the most common dinosaurs in Asia but more derived basal neoceratopsians were quite rare on that continent (Xu et al. 2002; Makovicky and Norell 2006). Basal neoceratopsians became more abundant in the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and China, although they are not known in this region from the latest Cretaceous (You and Dodson 2004; Alifanov 2008). In contrast, basal neoceratopsians are rare during the Early Cretaceous in North America but became common and diverse during the Campanian and Maastrichtian (You and Dodson 2004; Chinnery and Horner 2007). Little is known about the evolutionary history of this group in more inland regions of what are now Kazakhstan and adjoining countries. Asiaceratops documents the presence of basal neoceratopsians in the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan (Nessov et al. 1989). Here we report on the first record of a basal neoceratopsian in the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan, based on two cranial bones from the Turonian Zhirkindek Formation in the northeastern Aral Sea region.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2009, 54, 3; 553-556
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: The ultrastructure, development, and systematic position of the graptolite genus Mastigograptus
Autorzy:: Bates, D E B
Urbanek, A.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21265.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2002
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: Graptolithina
internal structure
graptolite
development
remains
Pterobranchia
taxonomy
systematic position
stratigraphy
Mastigograptus
Ordovician
ultrastructure
paleontology
Opis:: Fragments of rhabdosomes isolated by chemical treatment from an erratic boulder of Baltic origin and ?Middle Ordovician age, provisionally assigned to Mastigograptus aff. tenuiramosus (Wallcott, 1881) were studied with SEM. Although exceptionally well preserved, remains lack the thin−walled free portions of thecae. Rhabdosomes are provided with a strongly developed basal disc, short stem and many branched stipes. The latter consist of heavily corticalized chains of stolothecae with alternately disposed thecal bases. Stolothecae display a morphological gradient and increase in size and change in shape distalwards. The stolon system studied with SEM on naturally and artificially broken specimens, as well as traced through open thecal bases, reveals a regular triad budding but no stolon inside the stolothecal cavity. We tentatively suggest that crassal lining, recognized earlier by TEM studies, corresponds to an unusually inflated stolonal stolon, filling the entire thecal cavity and adhering tightly to stolothecal wall. The systematic position of Mastigograptus, a matter of long debate, seems to be defined by a number of structural features which imply a distinct difference between genus in question and all known orders of sessile graptolites. The order Mastigograptida nov. and the family Mastigograptidae nov. are proposed.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2002, 47, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Kirkigraptus, a new retiolitid graptolite from Poland
Autorzy:: Kozlowska, A
Bates, D.E.B.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21786.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2008
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: deposit
Polska
systematics
paleontology
Silurian
Kirkigraptus inexpectans
retiolitid skeleton
Retiolitidae
graptolite
Graptolithina
retiolitid graptolite
new species
new aspect
East European Platform
evolution
Opis:: The new retiolitid graptolite Kirkigraptus inexpectans gen. et sp. nov., from the Neodiversograptus nilssoni Biozone of the Bartoszyce borehole, Poland is described. It is unique among the retiolitids not having a preserved virgella or ancora. Instead the most proximal structures are two round proxi−lateral lists, joining the two genicular lists of the first thecae, connecting the two sides of the rhabdosome. The lists are interpreted as a possible homologue of the distal edge of the ancora umbrella in typical retiolitids. The size of rhabdosome with large proximal lateral orifices, and the ventral panels of thecae with mid−ventral lists, are similar to those of Plectograptus, whereas the two ancora sleeve panels consisting of spaced horizontal lists only, resemble those of Valentinagraptus. It is possible that the new retiolitid may represent a new pattern of development of the proximal end of the rhabdosome, different from that in all other retiolitids.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2008, 53, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: New material and reinterpretation of the Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Paranyctoides from Uzbekistan
Autorzy:: Averianov, A.O.
Archibald, J.D.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22276.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2013
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: reinterpretation
Late Cretaceous
Cretaceous
paleontology
eutherian mammal
mammal
Mammalia
Eutheria
Paranyctoides aralensis
Turonian Bissekty Formation
Uzbekistan
Opis:: Paranyctoides aralensis, based on a partially known set of lower postcanines from the Turonian Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan, is proposed to be a junior subjective synonym of Sailestes quadrans, itself based on an M1 from the same stratigraphic unit. As a result, the latter taxon is recombined as Paranyctoides quadrans comb. nov. Based on newly col− lected or recognized specimens, we show that this species has four lower incisors, including a procumbent i1 and a rela− tively small i4, as well as five double−rooted premolars, the smallest of which (p3) can be lost ontogenetically. The p5 of this species is premolariform, rather than molariform as previously thought based on an erroneous identification, and re− sembles North American species of Paranyctoides in the presence of a small, cingulid−like paraconid and a distal talonid cusp, as well as the absence of a metaconid. The lower molars of Paranyctoides are unique among Late Cretaceous eutherians in having a larger, lingually placed paraconid. Paranycoides probably is the sister taxon of the Late Cretaceous Zhelestidae.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2013, 58, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Enrolment in a Middle Ordovician agnostoid trilobite
Autorzy:: Bruton, D L
Nakrem, H.A.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22605.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2005
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: trilobite
Trilobita
preservation
Agnostida
Middle Ordovician
Virginia
Ordovician
agnostoid trilobite
Edinburg Formation
life habit
Trinodus elspethi
paleontology
Opis:: Study of silicified material of Trinodus elspethi, from the Edinburg Formation, Virginia, USA, shows there is no gliding of distal parts of segments but an articulating furrow and opposing flange with prongs, acting as apodemes for muscle attachment, allowed cephalon and thorax to move as a single unit. Articulation between thorax and pygidium was more rigid with prongs from the thorax articulating in sockets on the pygidium. Support is given to the view that agnostoids lived partially enrolled with cephalon and pygidium gaping. They are unique in lacking an articulating half−ring between cephalon and thorax and the hinge joint is modified medially to provide an opening for what is interpreted as an exhalatory organ through which water passed during feeding and swimming. Peculiarities of the thorax are connected with the presence of only two thoracic segments articulating as a unit with distal tips directed anteriorly rather than posteriorly. Otherwise articulating half rings are present in the rest of the thorax and pygidium and lack of articulating facets is not unique. It is concluded that agnostoids can be shown to be trilobites.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2005, 50, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Late Cretaceous asioryctitherian eutherian mammals from Uzbekistan and phylogenetic analysis of Asioryctitheria
Autorzy:: Archibald, J D
Averianov, A.O.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/23233.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2006
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: Asioryctitheria
Eutheria
mammal
Late Cretaceous
Cretaceous
Uchkudukodon
Uzbekistan
Daulestes
Mammalia
Bulaklestes
paleontology
Opis:: Four small asioryctitheres at Dzharakuduk (Turonian), Uzbekistan are Daulestes kulbeckensis (= Kumlestes olzha), D. inobservabilis (= Kennalestes? uzbekistanensis), Uchkudukodon (gen. nov.) nessovi and Bulaklestes kezbe. Uchkudukodon nessovi is one of the smallest therians (molars about 1 mm long). Lower canine is two−rooted in Uchkudukodon gen. nov. and Bulaklestes(uncertain in Daulestes). All lower premolars in all four species are double−rooted. Teeth identified as dp1, p2 and dp2 in holotype of Uchkudukodon nessovi (McKenna et al. 2000) are here identified c, p1, and p2. A phylogenetic analysis weakly supported Asioryctitheria by four synapomorphies: conular basins become distinct, the number of roots reverts to two on the lower canine, the p5 becomes longer than p4, and the metaconid on p5 is reduced and lost. Other characters diagnostic of asioryctitheres are four upper and lower premolars (arguably five upper premolars in juvenile Kennalestes), P4 has a protocone swelling or protocone, some asymmetry of the stylar shelf on M1–2, the paraconule on M1–3 is distinctly closer to the protocone than is the metaconule, protocone is of moderate height on M1–3 (70–80% of paracone or metacone height), Meckel’s groove is absent, and the mandibular foramen opens into a smaller depression on lingual side of mandibular ascending ramus. Asioryctes and Ukhaatherium are placed in Asioryctinae and along with Kennalestes are placed in Asioryctidae. Kennalestidae Kielan−Jaworowska, 1981 is a junior subjective synonym for Asioryctidae Kielan−Jaworowska, 1981. Because of uncertainties in the analysis, the positions of Daulestes, Uchkudukodon gen. nov., and Bulaklestes cannot be determined beyond referral to Asioryctitheria.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2006, 51, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: A new helmeted frog of the genus Thaumastosaurus from the Eocene of England
Autorzy:: Holman, J A
Harrison, D.L.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20047.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2003
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: Thaumastosaurus
Eocene
Thaumastosaurus bottii
England
frog
Thaumastosaurus wardi
paleontology
Opis:: Helmeted frogs with co−ossified skulls (Thaumastosaurus) were previously known in Europe only in the Eocene on the basis of Thaumastosaurus bottii from southwestern France and Thaumastosaurus wardi from coastal southern England. We describe Thaumastosaurus sulcatus, that differs from these species in having a different dermal sculpture pattern and tooth morphology. We suggest that the auburn colored tooth crown tips in T. sulcatus, as in some other vertebrates, reflect extra hardness for protection against tooth wear. Autochthonous Thaumastosaurus species in southern England support the concept that southern England and southwestern France were distinct faunal provinces in the Late Eocene.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2003, 48, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: New specimens of the multituberculate mammal Uzbekbaatar from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan
Autorzy:: Averianov, A O
Archibald, J.D.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22995.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2006
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: multituberculate
new specimen
mammal
Cretaceous
Late Cretaceous
Uzbekistan
Uzbekbaatar kizylkumensis
paleontology
Opis:: Uzbekbaatar Kielan−Jaworowska and Nessov, 1992 is among the rarest mammals and the only multituberculate in the diverse, eutherian dominated Bissekty (Turonian) and Aitym (?Coniacian) local faunas, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. New material from the Bissekty local fauna, suggests that only one multituberculate species, Uzbekbaatar kizylkumensis Kielan−Jaworowska and Nessov, 1992 is present in the Bissekty fauna. A newly collected p4 is better preserved than the holotype and demonstrates presence of the posterolabial cusp in the p4 of Uzbekbaatar. New material of Uzbekbaatar is consistent with placement of this taxon within the basal cimolodontan “Paracimexomys group.”
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2006, 51, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Pneumaticity and soft-tissue reconstructions in the neck of diplodocid and dicraeosaurid sauropods
Autorzy:: Schwarz, D
Frey, E.
Meyer, C.A.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22875.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2007
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: Dicraeosauridae
pneumaticity
cervical ligament
morphology
dicraeosaurid sauropod
diplodocid sauropod
sauropod
Diplodocidae
body length
muscle
ontogenesis
tomography
soft tissue reconstruction
cervical musculature
vertebral pneumaticity
paleontology
functional morphology
Opis:: The axial soft−tissue system in the neck of Dicraeosauridae and Diplodocidae, including pneumatic diverticula, ligaments, and muscles, is reconstructed on the basis of phylogenetic and functional morphological comparisons with extant crocodylians and birds and compared with other soft−tissue reconstructions for sauropods. Bifurcation of the neural spines separated the paired supraspinal ligament into two sheets. A paired interspinal septum was attached to the cranial and caudal margins of the neural spines. The dorsal and the lateral portions of the cervical musculature must have been strongly segmented, whereas the laterocostal portion was divided with one myoseptum per vertebral segment. The hypaxial cervical muscle was most probably small and only poorly segmented. In Diplodocidae and Dicraeosauridae, the distribution of external pneumatic structures is similar, whereas only Diplodocidae possess intraosseous pneumatic structures. Supravertebral pneumatic diverticula are reconstructed for both groups, which, together with dorsal ligaments filled the gap between the metapophyses of bifurcate neural spines. Comparisons between the vertebrae of juvenile and adult diplodocids strongly indicate that pneumatisation proceeded from the supramedullary diverticula into the neural arch and the neural spine. The regular branching pattern of the pneumatic cavities as well as the vertical I−beam construction of the vertebral corpora is interpreted as a consequence of the biomechanical constraints of the vertebral corpora in diplodocids. These reconstructions form the ground for functional morphological considerations in Diplodocidae and Dicraeosauridae while addressing the possible mechanical consequences of pneumatic structures for the integrity of the support system of the neck.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2007, 52, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: A large extinct marabou stork in African Pliocene hominid sites, and a review of the fossil species of Leptoptilos
Autorzy:: Louchart, A
Vignaud, P.
Likius, A.
Brunet, M.
White, T.D.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22950.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2005
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: Ethiopia
Ciconiidae
new fossil
Aves
fossil
Leptoptilos falconeri
Chad
Africa
Asia
Pliocene
paleontology
Opis:: New fossils of the family Ciconiidae from Pliocene hominid localities in Chad and Ethiopia are described, and several are shown to belong to Leptoptilos falconeri, originally known from the late Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills of India. Comparisons with all the hitherto known species of large Ciconiidae, and with an enlarged sample representing extant species, lead to a re−evaluation of some extinct taxa. Several synonymies are proposed, reflecting better the past diversity for this group. L. pliocenicus (Pliocene, Ukraine) is equivalent to L. cf. falconeri. Cryptociconia indica (late Pliocene, Siwalik Hills) belongs to Leptoptilos, and is probably either extant L. dubius or female L. falconeri. L. siwalicensis, from the same locality and also tentatively reported from the late Miocene of Northern Pakistan, is better referred to as Leptoptilini gen. et sp. indet. We consider the two following species as valid. L. titan (Pleistocene, Java) may be a late offshot of the lineage of L. falconeri. L. richae (late Miocene, Tunisia) is the size of L. crumeniferus, and is distinct from L. falconeri. Thus, L. falconeri remains the only ascertained extinct Pliocene species in the tribe Leptoptilini. It was a widespread “giant” marabou stork, in the Pliocene of southern Asia, as well as northern and eastern Africa where it coexisted with different Pliocene hominids, and probably eastern Europe. It weighed up to about 20 kg, reached 2 m in height, and had probably slightly reduced forelimbs. It became extinct by the end of the Pliocene. L. falconeri is an example of a biogeographical link at the species level between the African and Eurasian faunas in the Pliocene. The fossil record indicates the presence of at least one other lineage in Africa since the early Miocene, similar in size to the extant L. crumeniferus.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2005, 50, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki

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Tytuł:: Placental nature of the alleged marsupial from the Cretaceous of Madagascar
Autorzy:: Averianov, A O
Archibald, J.D.
Martin, T.
Powiązania:: https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22547.pdf
Data publikacji:: 2003
Wydawca:: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:: molar
placental nature
mammal
Cretaceous
Madagascar
paleontology
Opis:: A recently (Krause 2001) reported fragmentary mammalian lower molar (University of Antananarivo, UA 8699) from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Madagascar, was attributed to Marsupialia, for which far reaching paleobiogeographical conclusions were made. The five characters used to identify UA 8699 as a marsupial are not exclusive to Late Cretaceous marsupials, but are found also in some placental mammals, notably in Late Cretaceous ungulatomorph zhelestids, known from various Upper Cretaceous strata in Asia, Europe, and NorthAmerica (Nessov et al. 1998). Identification of UA 8699 as a zhelestid placental is in keeping withmyriad other faunal similarities between Europe and Africa/Madagascar.
Źródło:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2003, 48, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:: Biblioteka Nauki