Comparisons of Schansitherium tafeli with Samotherium boissieri (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China

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	Comparisons of Schansitherium tafeli with Samotherium boissieri (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China
	Hou, Sukuan1,2,3 ; Cydylo, Michael 4; Danowitz, Melinda 5; Solounias, Nikos 4,6
	2019-02-12
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
卷号	14 期号:2 页码:29
摘要	We are describing and figuring for the first time skulls of Schansitherium tafeli, which are abundant in the Gansu area of China from the Late Miocene. They were animals about the size of Samotherium with shorter necks that had two pairs of ossicones that merge at the base, which is unlike Samotherium. The anterior ossicones consist of anterior lineations, which may represent growth lines. They were likely mixed feeders similar to Samotherium. Schansitherium is tentatively placed in a very close position to Samotherium. Samotherium and Schansitherium represent a pair of morphologically very similar species that likely coexisted similarly to pairs of modern species, where the main difference is in the ossicones. Pairs of ruminants in Africa, for example, exist today that differ mostly in their horn shape but otherwise are similar in size, shape, and diet. The absence of Schansitherium from Europe is interesting, however, as Samotherium is found in both locations. While is it challenging to interpret neck length and ossicone shape in terms of function in combat, we offer our hypothesis as to how the two species differed in their fighting techniques.
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0211797
关键词[WOS]	PHYLOGENY
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41430102] ; China Scholarship Council ; Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA20070203] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41872005] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41202002] ; Key Frontier Science Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[QYZDY-SSW-DQC002]
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000458395600025
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/311034/9348
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Hou, Sukuan
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.New York Inst Technol, Coll Osteopath Med, Dept Anat, Old Westbury, NY 11568 USA 5.Alfred I duPont Hosp Children, Dept Pediat, Wilmington, DE USA 6.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hou, Sukuan,Cydylo, Michael,Danowitz, Melinda,et al. Comparisons of Schansitherium tafeli with Samotherium boissieri (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China[J]. PLOS ONE,2019,14(2):29.
APA	Hou, Sukuan,Cydylo, Michael,Danowitz, Melinda,&Solounias, Nikos.(2019).Comparisons of Schansitherium tafeli with Samotherium boissieri (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China.PLOS ONE,14(2),29.
MLA	Hou, Sukuan,et al."Comparisons of Schansitherium tafeli with Samotherium boissieri (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China".PLOS ONE 14.2(2019):29.

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