A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae)

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	A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae)
	Wang, Xiaoming 1,2,3,4; Solounias, Nikos 4,5; Hou, Su-kuan3,6 ; Li, Lu3 ; Tomida, Yukimitsu 7
	2025-08-05
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
卷号	20 期号:8 页码:24
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaoming(xwang@nhm.org)
摘要	The classic Middle Miocene Wolf Camp locality discovered in 1930 by the Third Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History has been long known to produce an extinct giraffe, Palaeotragus tungurensis Colbert, 1936. Its dental and limb morphology offers tantalizing clues to a close relationship to the living giraffe, Giraffa. Its ossicone, a key part of the giraffe anatomy, is unknown since its initial description. Our discovery, in 2011, of an almost perfectly preserved ossicone from Wolf Camp thus fills this void and is described herein. Novel morphology of the ossicone, unlike any known so far, warrants a new generic name, Qilin, and Q. tungurensis adds important evidence that this Middle Miocene record from Inner Mongolia represents a key taxon in the evolution of the subfamily Giraffinae. Ossicone morphology is fundamentally similar to that of living Giraffa as well as members of Bohlinini. Dentally, Q. tungurensis also strongly supports its membership within Bohlinini with a unique shared derived character of P2-3 para- and metastyles bending inward to mesostyle. Q. tungurensis possesses a slender limb and a modestly deep trough on the posterior surface of the metacarpals that also suggest membership in Bohlinini. Combined with knowledge about its dental and limb morphology, the new Wolf Camp ossicone indicates an important stage of giraffine evolution, and contributes to a better understanding of its chronology and zoogeography.
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0328405
关键词[WOS]	PHYLOGENY ; MARAGHEH ; MIOCENE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[42372028] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[42472040] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[42430207]
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001544822200043
出版者	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/24810
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaoming
作者单位	1.Univ Southern Calif, Dept Biol Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 5.New York Inst Technol, Coll Osteopath Med, Dept Anat, Old Westbury, NY USA 6.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 7.Natl Museum Nat & Sci, Dept Geol & Paleontol, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaoming,Solounias, Nikos,Hou, Su-kuan,et al. A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae)[J]. PLOS ONE,2025,20(8):24.
APA	Wang, Xiaoming,Solounias, Nikos,Hou, Su-kuan,Li, Lu,&Tomida, Yukimitsu.(2025).A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae).PLOS ONE,20(8),24.
MLA	Wang, Xiaoming,et al."A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae)".PLOS ONE 20.8(2025):24.