The Oldest Cranium of Sinomastodon (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae), Discovered in the Uppermost Miocene of Southwestern China: Implications for the Origin and Migration of This Taxon

Wang, Shi Qi; Ji, Xuan; Jablonski, Nina G.; Su, Denise F.; Ge, Jun‐Yi; Ding, Chang Fen; Yu, Teng Song; Li, Wen Qi; Duangkrayom, Jaroon

doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9311-z

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“…The specimen is curated at the National Museum Kraljevo (abbreviated NMKVRS), Serbia. The odontological terminology in this paper follows TASSY (1996), TOBIEN (1996), andWANG et al (2016) (Fig. 2), and the measurements were taken after GÖHLICH (1998).…”

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“…2), and the measurements were taken after GÖHLICH (1998). The specimen's degree of zygodonty was assessed using the method proposed by WANG et al (2016). For metric comparisons, we applied an adjusted z-score analysis, which allows the comparison of unbalanced samples, often limitative for the fossil record, using the Student's t inverse distribution (SCO-LAN et al, 2012;ZANOLLI, 2013).…”

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“…Pretrite main cusps: In an unworn, typical zygodont tooth, the tip of the pretrite main cusp is sharp, located close to the median axis; in contrast, typical bunodonts (e.g. G. angustidens) show blunt pretrite main cusps, located farther from the median axis (WANG et al, 2016). In the fragmented NMKVRS.P5 molar, the protoconid and hypoconid evidently display sharp tips.…”

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“…In intermediate forms (e.g. G. subtapiroideum), the pretrite mesoconelet may be subdivided into several small aligned conelets running from the tip of the pretrite main cusp to the median sulcus (WANG et al, 2016).…”

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“…In this paper, we describe and examine a fragmented elephantoid molar with intermediate morphology, discovered recently in Central Serbia. In order to minimize the subjectivity in our assessment of the specimen's zygodonty, we applied a new, semiquantitative method suggested by WANG et al (2016). The specimen originated from the Kruševac Basin, a semi-isolated Neo-Alpine tectonic depression (graben), mostly filled with thick Early and Middle Miocene lacustrine clastics (KNEŽEVIĆ, 1997;MAROVIĆ et al, 2007).…”

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A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Krusevac basin in Central Serbia

Radović

Bradić-Milinović²

2018

Geol An Balk Poluos

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Throughout the most of the Miocene epoch, proboscideans were well represented in Europe by deinotheres and diverse forms of "mastodonts" (mammutids, gomphotheres, amebelodonts, and cho-erolophodonts) (GÖHLICH, 1999, 2010). Among the members of superfamily Elephantoidea GRAY, 1821, there is a major morphological distinction based on the form of cheek dentition, which are differentiated between the so-called bunodont and zygodont patterns. The patterns are typified by the gomphothere

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A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Krusevac basin in Central Serbia

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2018

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A gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Quaternary of the Kashmir Valley, India

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Jukar

Paul

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Papers in Palaeontology

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The Kashmir Valley in northern India preserves a fossiliferous Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary record extending in time almost 5 myr. These fluvio-lacustrine sediments are commonly called the Karewas, and represent an ancient lake system with drainages derived from the Greater Himalayas and Pir Panjal Ranges. Although fossils have been known from this region for more than 150 years, the record is not as rich or taxonomically well resolved as the dense fossil record of the southern Siwalik Group. Here, we report the first specimen of a Quaternary gomphothere, cf. Sinomastodon sp. from the Kashmir Valley, along with new occurrences of Equus cf. sivalensis. This is the youngest gomphothere known from the Indian Subcontinent, representing a group of proboscideans hitherto thought to have gone locally extinct at the end of the Pliocene. Sinomastodon is commonly found in eastern and southeast Asia, and its presence in the Kashmir Valley suggests robust dispersal routes from southeast Asia to the high Himalayas. The presence of this browsing proboscidean in the Pleistocene suggests a unique refugial forested intermontane ecosystem, similar to those found in southern China, different from the savannah ecosystems found in the Siwalik Group south of the mountains.

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Environmental Change and Body Size Evolution in Neogene Large Mammals

Huang

Eyres

Fritz

et al. 2023

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

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The Oldest Cranium of Sinomastodon (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae), Discovered in the Uppermost Miocene of Southwestern China: Implications for the Origin and Migration of This Taxon

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Krusevac basin in Central Serbia

A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Krusevac basin in Central Serbia

A gomphothere (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Quaternary of the Kashmir Valley, India

Environmental Change and Body Size Evolution in Neogene Large Mammals

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