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| A skull of Plesiaceratherium gracile (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from a new lower Miocene locality in Shandong Province, China, and the phylogenetic position of Plesiaceratherium | |
| Lu, Xiaokang1; Zheng, Xiaoting2; Sullivan, Corwin1; Tan, Jin3 | |
| 2016-05-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
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| 卷号 | 36期号:3 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | A well-preserved fossil skull from a new locality in Jijiazhuang, Changle County, Shandong Province, China, is attributable to Plesiaceratherium gracile. Other rhinoceroses from the nearby Shanwang Basin of Linqu County, Shandong, formerly described as Aceratherium sp. and Plesiaceratherium shanwangensis are also referable to P. gracile. The new skull demonstrates the presence in P. gracile of the following characters: continuous labial cingula on lower cheek teeth; skull roof with nearly flat profile; and external auditory pseudomeatus ventrally closed, proceeding dorsocaudally in a shallow groove. Comparison of Plesiaceratherium with Brachypotherium pugnator Matsumoto, 1921, suggests that referral of the latter to Plesiaceratherium should be reconsidered. A phylogenetic analysis based on 314 characters scored for 39 terminal taxa places Plesiaceratherium mirallesi in a basal position within Rhinocerotidae, and recovers other species of Plesiaceratherium as a clade that is well separated from B. pugnator and is sister to the [Subchilotherium [Acerorhinus [Shansirhinus, B. pugnator [Chilotherium]]]] grouping. Based on this result and a reevaluation of the anatomy of P.' mirallesi, we propose that the genus Dromoceratherium should be revived to accommodate this species as D. mirallesi. The occurrence of P. gracile at Jijiazhuang indicates that the fossiliferous diatomaceous shales of this locality were deposited during the lower Miocene.SUPPLEMENTAL DATASupplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVPCitation for this article: Lu, X., X. Zheng, C. Sullivan, and J. Tan. 2016. A skull of Plesiaceratherium gracile (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from a new lower Miocene locality in Shandong Province, China, and the phylogenetic position of Plesiaceratherium. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1095201. |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| DOI | 10.1080/02724634.2016.1095201 |
| 关键词[WOS] | LINXIA BASIN ; MAMMALIA RHINOCEROTIDAE ; MIDDLE MIOCENE ; BUGTI HILLS ; SHANWANG ; PAKISTAN ; BALUCHISTAN ; ALICORNOPS ; GANSU ; GENUS |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 项目资助者 | Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2012CB821906) ; Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC41372014 ; 41430102) |
| WOS研究方向 | Paleontology |
| WOS类目 | Paleontology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000374557800006 |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7087 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Tianyu Museum Nat Hist, Pingyi 273300, Shandong, Peoples R China 3.Shanwang Natl Geopk China, Linqu 262600, Shandong, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lu, Xiaokang,Zheng, Xiaoting,Sullivan, Corwin,et al. A skull of Plesiaceratherium gracile (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from a new lower Miocene locality in Shandong Province, China, and the phylogenetic position of Plesiaceratherium[J]. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,2016,36(3). |
| APA | Lu, Xiaokang,Zheng, Xiaoting,Sullivan, Corwin,&Tan, Jin.(2016).A skull of Plesiaceratherium gracile (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from a new lower Miocene locality in Shandong Province, China, and the phylogenetic position of Plesiaceratherium.JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,36(3). |
| MLA | Lu, Xiaokang,et al."A skull of Plesiaceratherium gracile (Rhinocerotidae, Perissodactyla) from a new lower Miocene locality in Shandong Province, China, and the phylogenetic position of Plesiaceratherium".JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 36.3(2016). |
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