Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1996 |
Authors: | FORTELIUS, MIKAEL, Van Der Made, J, Bernor, RL |
Journal: | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1 |
Date Published: | 1996 |
ISBN Number: | 02724634 |
Keywords: | Meleagris, Meleagris gallopavo, Phasianidae |
Abstract: | The early middle Miocene (MN 6; ca. 15 Ma) locality of Paşalar in western Anatolia (Turkey) has produced a large and well studied collection of land mammals, including hominoid primates. We confirm the cooccurrence of two species of listriodont suids at this locality, and describe one of them as Bunolistriodon meidamon sp. nov. The other species is referred to Listriodon splendens. B. meidamon is characterised by extreme widening of the central incisors, large size of the male upper canines, labiolingually compressed ("meidamonic") lower male canines, and narrow cheek teeth. These synapomorphies define a clade comprising at least B. latidens and B. meidamon, which are thus separated from the plesiomorphic species complex of listriodonts lacking lophed molars (Listriodon, Lopholistriodon) or cranial appendages (the "horned" kubanochoeres). |
URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4523701 |
Short Title: | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |
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