Late Miocene large mammals from Mahmutgazi, Denizli province, Western Turkey
Author
Denis Geraards
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Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen
2017
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https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2017/00000284/00000003/art00001
journal article
10.1127/njgpa/2017/0661
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Cremohipparion
cf.
matthewi
(
ABEL
, 1926
)
There are two complete
upper tooth-rows
(
Fig. 5
D
), one with P3-M3, probably also a
mandible
with the front teeth and the premolars, and some more or less lower complete tooth-rows (
Fig. 5
E-G). The length of the series P2-P4 ranges from
64 to 68 mm
, that of M1-M3 from
53 to 57 mm
. The protocone is large and rounded on the upper premolars, and tends to connect anteriorly to the protoloph; it is smaller and more transversally compressed on the molars. The pli caballin is small, and sometimes multiple on the premolars. On a mandible, the diastema is rather short and the third incisor looks unreduced, but the specimen is not fully adult.
The
metapodials
are shorter and more slender than all other Turkish specimens measured by
STAESCHE & SONDAAR (1979)
from Kınık, Garkın, or Kayadibi, but are comparable with those of
C. matthewi
from Kemiklitepe A-B or Samos Q5 (
KOUFOS & VLACHOU 2005, figs. 43-44
).
Although no substantial part of the skull is preserved, the size of the tooth-rows, and those of the short, slender metapodials unambiguously indicate that this
hipparion
belongs to a group of small-size forms, of which
Cremohipparion matthewi
is the most common representative, and we tentatively assign the small
hipparion
from Mahmutgazi to this species.