Sonitictis moralesi, gen. et sp. nov, a new hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid from middle Miocene Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China and its functional morphology

doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2004594

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	Sonitictis moralesi, gen. et sp. nov, a new hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid from middle Miocene Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China and its functional morphology
	Wang, Xiaoming 1,2; Tseng, Z. Jack 1,3; Jiangzuo, Qigao 2,4; Wang, Shiqi2 ; Wang, Hongjiang 5
	2021-11-27
发表期刊	HISTORICAL BIOLOGY
ISSN	0891-2963
页码	12
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaoming(xwang@nhm.org) ; Tseng, Z. Jack(zjt@berkeley.edu)
摘要	We name a rare, hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid Sonitictis moralesi, new genus and species, in honour of Jorge Morales for his contributions to carnivore palaeontology. Sonitictis moralesi is from the middle Miocene Tunggur Formation of Inner Mongolia, China (Tunggurian Land Mammal age). S. moralesi has a short and robust jaw that deepens slightly behind the m1 and possesses a shallow groove at its ventral surface. Dentally, it has robust premolars and highly hypercarnivorous m1 that has lost the metaconid and a trenchant talonid. Known by three jaw fragments, knowledge of this new mustelid is still poor and its relationship uncertain. However, based on its possession of a ventral groove, robust premolars and hypercarnivorous first molar, we tentatively place it in the subfamily Mellivorinae, which includes modern Mellivora capensis (honey badger) and extinct species of Eomellivora, plus others. We conducted mandibular force profile analyses on one S. moralesi specimen and compared bite force estimates to several specimens of E. piveteaui, E. wimani and M. capensis. The results suggest that Sonitictis likely was a more capable predator and consumer of vertebrate prey than the extant Mellivora, reaching the low end of the bite force estimates for the larger and more robust Eomellivora.
关键词	Mustelidae middle Miocene Tunggur Formation Inner Mongolia
DOI	10.1080/08912963.2021.2004594
关键词[WOS]	CARNIVORA ; SUBDIVISION ; MAMMALIA ; NEOGENE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20070203] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20070301] ; Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[KZCX2-YW-120] ; MST of China[2006CB806400] ; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund[2004-2-4] ; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (National Natural Science Foundation of China)[49872011] ; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (National Natural Science Foundation of China)[40128004] ; National Geographic Society[5527-95] ; National Geographic Society[6004-97] ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
项目资助者	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; MST of China ; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund ; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (National Natural Science Foundation of China) ; National Geographic Society ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams
WOS研究方向	Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Paleontology
WOS类目	Biology ; Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:000722522000001
出版者	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/19241
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaoming; Tseng, Z. Jack
作者单位	1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Integrat Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 4.Peking Univ, Sch Earth & Space Sci, Key Lab Orogen Belts & Crustal Evolut, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Adm Stn Cultural Relics Xilin Gol League, Xilin Hot, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaoming,Tseng, Z. Jack,Jiangzuo, Qigao,et al. Sonitictis moralesi, gen. et sp. nov, a new hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid from middle Miocene Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China and its functional morphology[J]. HISTORICAL BIOLOGY,2021:12.
APA	Wang, Xiaoming,Tseng, Z. Jack,Jiangzuo, Qigao,Wang, Shiqi,&Wang, Hongjiang.(2021).Sonitictis moralesi, gen. et sp. nov, a new hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid from middle Miocene Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China and its functional morphology.HISTORICAL BIOLOGY,12.
MLA	Wang, Xiaoming,et al."Sonitictis moralesi, gen. et sp. nov, a new hypercarnivorous and durophagous mustelid from middle Miocene Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia, China and its functional morphology".HISTORICAL BIOLOGY (2021):12.