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A new assemblage of basal dichobunoid artiodactyls from the middle-Eocene Shanghuang fissure fillings includes the diacodexeid
Jiangsudon shanghuangensis gen. and sp. nov., a new species of the lantianine dichobunoid Elaschitotherium, Elaschitotherium crepaturus sp. nov., and an indeterminate suoid which is presently the earliest record of this clade. Diacodexeids are also represented
by two forms provisionally referred to cf. Diacodexis sp. and to an indeterminate Diacodexeidae, respectively. The occurrence of diacodexeids in Shanghuang contrasts with the
early and earliest middle-Eocene chronological range of the family in Europe and North America and suggests that the stratigraphic
range of the family in Asia extends up to the middle Eocene. This may reflect particular habitats in coastal China that may
have been relatively stable during the early and middle Eocene, thus preserving forest-dwelling artiodactyls that became extinct
in the other Holarctic regions. Compared to other supposedly coeval North American, European, and Asian faunas, the Shanghuang
mammalian assemblage is most similar to early Uintan faunas of North America but is also remarkable in recording forms close
to taxa that are characteristic of the Wasatchian and Bridgerian North American Land Mammal Ages. The Irdinmanhan age of the
Shanghuang fauna is supported by the mammalian assemblage recovered from the fissure D, but an Arshantan age cannot be completely
ruled out at this point. Although the Shanghuang assemblage is biased towards preservation of small components of the mammalian
fauna, the Shanghuang fauna provide an important and unique window into the Eocene diversity and early evolution of cetartiodactyls
in eastern Asia. 相似文献
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Métais G Antoine PO Baqri SR Benammi M Crochet JY de Franceschi D Marivaux L Welcomme JL 《Die Naturwissenschaften》2006,93(7):348-355
Newly discovered fossil material of the enigmatic cetartiodactyl Bugtitherium grandincisivum from the upper Oligocene of the Bugti Member of the Chitarwata Formation in the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan) is reported. These new specimens consist of two fragmentary muzzles (one preserving the first incisors and belonging to a juvenile) and a fragmentary right mandible with m3. The morphologies of the anterior dentition and m3 provided by these new specimens confirm the validity of the genus Bugtitherium and advocate probable anthracotheriid affinity for the genus rather than entelodontid or suoid affinities, but do not definitively close the debate about Bugtitherium’s familial affinities within Cetartiodactyla. Although still poorly documented, this large-sized anthracotheriid-like cetartiodactyl is a possible key form for understanding the early evolution of hippos, and, in turn, the ancestry of whales, because of both its morphological similarities with hippos and primitive Paleogene whales and its Tethysian distribution. 相似文献
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