Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia: Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming
Author
Velazco, Paúl M.
Author
Novacek, Michael J.
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American Museum Novitates
2016
2016-11-18
2016
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1206/3867.1
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Palaeictops multicuspis
(
Granger, 1910
)
Figures 11–12
, table 1
Parictops multicuspis
Granger, 1910: 250–251
.
Palaeictops multicuspis
Van Valen, 1967: 232
. First use of current name combination.
HOLOTYPE
AND ONLY SPECIMEN:
AMNH 14741
, a left ramus with p2–m3 and a right ramus with p4–m3 and alveoli for a double-rooted p2, single rooted canine, and three incisors
(figs. 11, 12).
TYPE LOCALITY:
Alkali Creek
(Buck Springs) of
Wind
River
Basin,
Wyoming
. Lost Cabin Member,
Wind
River
Formation,
Lower Eocene
(Wasatchian NALMA)
.
DIAGNOSIS: Differs from other species of the genus (except
P. robustus
) in its large size and deeper ramus. Also differs from other species (including
P. robustus
) in having a trenchant p2 with four anteroposteriorly aligned cusps; p4 with very small anterior accessory cusps, two main cusps and two low cusps on the shortened heel; p5 with small, but distinct, cuspule at labial base of the paraconid. Similar to
Palaeictops matthewi
in having a trenchant p4 taller than p5 but differs from
P. matthewi
in having greater number of cusps on p2 and p4. Similar to
Prodiacodon
and
Myrmecoboides
in having lower molar entoconulids, but differs from these taxa in showing characters that diagnose
Palaeictops
(e.g., large, swollen p5 paraconid).
REMARKS: See
Novacek (1977)
.