New data on the Cainotheriidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the early Oligocene of south-western France
Author
Blondel, Cecile
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2005
2005-06-30
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journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00166.x
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PLESIOMERYX HUERZELERI
BERGER, 1959
1937
Caenotherium gracile
Pomel
;
Dehm, 1937: 352
.
Holotype
:
Skull
BSP1952
II 1149
.
Gaimersheim
fissure filling (
Germany
) (
MP28
).
Diagnosis:
Species of
Plesiomeryx
that appears similar to
P. cadurcensis
,
but is larger. The fronto- nasal suture is short. The lingual cingulum of P/3 is missing. The lingual and labial cones of P/4 reach the same level (
Berger, 1959
).
Referred material:
Mas de Got: four maxillary fragments, one with right P2/-M3/ (
MGT
3209), one with right P3/-M2/ (
MGT
3208), one with left P1/-M1/ (
MGT
3212), and one with left P4/-M3/ (
MGT
3213); 14 mandibular fragments, two with left P/2-M/3 (
MGT
131,
MGT
3187), three with left P/3-M/3 (
MGT
103,
MGT
115,
MGT
134), two with left P/2-M/1 (
MGT
105,
MGT
138), two with right P/3-M/2 (
MGT
107,
MGT
3183), one with left P/1-P/3 (
MGT
124), two with right P/3-P/ 4 (
MGT
191,
MGT
3177), one with right P/3-M/1 (
MGT
3193), one with left P/2-P/3 (
MGT
195). La Plante 2: three mandibular fragments, two with right P/3-M/1 (
PL
2 1171,
PL
2 1221), one with left P/2-P/3 (
PL
2 1216). Pech Crabit: four left maxillary fragments P1/- P2/ (
PCT
382,
PCT
391,
PCT
431,
PCT
1000); 11 mandibular fragments, two with left P/2-P/3 (
PCT
348),