Biodiversity Literature Repository
Published March 25, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article Open

A new species of the tetralophodont amebelodontine Konobelodon Lambert, 1990 (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of China

Creators

Description

Wang, ShiQi, Shi, QinQin, He, Wen, Chen, ShanQin, Yang, XiangWen (2016): A new species of the tetralophodont amebelodontine Konobelodon Lambert, 1990 (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of China. Geodiversitas 38 (1): 65-97, DOI: 10.5252/g2016n1a4, URL: http://zoobank.org/ad9c6bae-8a37-4201-bfa6-c49739cfdd60

Files

source.pdf

Files (7.6 MB)

Name Size Download all
md5:6be9e036df7dd46de578f13e8e9a7aff
7.6 MB Preview Download

Linked records

Additional details

Identifiers

URN
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AD9C6BAE-8A37-4201-BFA6-C49739CFDD60
LSID
urn:lsid:plazi.org:pub:FFE9E036DF7DD46DE578F13EFF9AFFFF
URL
http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9E036DF7DD46DE578F13EFF9AFFFF

Cites
Publication: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00113.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00249.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2004.tb00669.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.7312/columbia/9780231150125.003.0009 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00142-0 (DOI)
Publication: 10.5252/g2010n4a3 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1007/s12542-010-0053-1 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1080/02724634.2014.873622 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00785.x (DOI)
Publication: 10.1007/s11430-013-4722-2 (DOI)
Publication: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.4.1 (DOI)
Publication: 10.5252/g2013n2a6 (DOI)
Publication: 10.5252/g2014n1a2 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1016/S0016-6995(86)80056-0 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1016/S0016-6995(87)80082-7 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1080/08912963.2014.918967 (DOI)
Publication: 10.4202/app.2011.0009 (DOI)
Publication: 10.1080/02724634.2014.881830 (DOI)
Has part
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.4535857 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D0984EDF7ED46EE6C8F76CFAF6F8F8 (URL)
Taxonomic treatment: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1858A9DB-FA28-4067-8AF1-B90BB9B6316A (LSID)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D0984EDF7ED471E6ADF66FFDE0FBD1 (URL)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535463 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535465 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535467 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535469 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535471 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535473 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535475 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535477 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535479 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535481 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535483 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535485 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535487 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535489 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535491 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535495 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4535497 (DOI)

References

  • ANDREWS C. W. 1906. - A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayum, Egypt. British Museum (Natural History), London, 324 p.
  • BAKALOV I. & NIKOLOV I. 1962. - Les fossiles de Bulgarie. X. Mammiferes tertiaires. Academie des Sciences de Bulgarie, Sofia, 162 p.
  • BARBOUR E. H. 1927. - Preliminary notice of a new proboscidean Amebelodon fricki, gen. et n. sp. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 1 (13): 131-134.
  • BARBOUR E. H. 1929. - Torynobelodon loomisi, gen. et n. sp. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 1 (16): 147-153.
  • BARBOUR E. H. 1932. - The mandible of Platybelodon barnumbrowni. Bulletin of the Nebraska State Museum 1 (30): 251-258.
  • BORISSIAK A. A. 1929. - On a new direction in the adaptive radiation of mastodonts. Palaeobiologica 2: 19-33.
  • CHOW M.-Z. & ZHANG Y.-P. 1983. - Occurrence of the proboscidean genus Stegotetrabelodon in China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21 (1): 52-58.
  • CHRISTIANSEN P. 2004. - Body size in proboscideans, with notes on elephant metabolism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 523-549. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00113.x
  • CHRISTIANSEN P. 2007. - Long-bone geometry in columnar-limbed animals: allometry of the proboscidean appendicular skeleton. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 423-436. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00249.x
  • DENG T. 2006a. - Chinese neogene mammal biochronology. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 44 (2): 143-163.
  • DENG T. 2006b. - Neogene Rhinoceroses of the Linxia Basin (Gansu, China).Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 256: 43-56.
  • DENG T., WANG X.-M., NI X.-J. & LIU L.-P. 2004. - Sequence of the Cenozoic mammalian faunas of the Linxia Basin in Gansu, China.Acta Geologica Sinica 78: 8-14. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2004.tb00669.x
  • DENG T., QIU Z.-X., WANG B.-Y., WANG X.-M. & HOU S.-K. 2013. - Late Cenozoic biostratigraphy of the Linxia Basin, northwestern China, in WANG X.-M., FLYNN L. J. & FORTELIUS M. (eds), Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology of Asia. Columbia University Press, New York: 243-273. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.7312/columbia/9780231150125.003.0009
  • FANG X.-M., GARZIONE C., VAN DER VOO R., LI J.-J. & FAN M. J. 2003. - Flexural subsidence by 29 Ma on the NE edge of Tibet from the magnetostratigraphy of Linxia Basin, China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 210: 545-560. http://dx.doi. org/ 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00142-0
  • FERRETTI M. P. 2010. - Anatomy of Haplomastodon chimborazi (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador and its bearing on the phylogeny and systematics of South American gomphotheres.Geodiversitas 32 (4): 663-721. http:// dx.doi.org/10.5252/g2010n4a3
  • FERRETTI M. P., ROOK L. & TORRE D. 2003. - Stegotetrabelodon (Proboscidea, Elephantidae) from the Late Miocene of southern Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23: 659-666. http://www. jstor.org/stable/4524359
  • FRICK C. 1933. - New remains of trilophodont-tetrabelodont mastodons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56: 505-652.
  • GAZIRY A. W. 1976. - Jungtertiare Mastodonten aus Anatolien (Turkei). Geologisches Jahrbuch 22: 3-143.
  • GAZIRY A. W. 1987. - Remains of proboscidea from the Early Pliocene of Sahabi, Libya, in BOAZ N. T., EL- ARNAUTI A., GAZIRY A. W., DE HEINZELIN J. & BOAZ D. D. (eds), Neogene Paleontology and Geology of Sahabi. A. R. Liss., New York: 183-203.
  • GERAADS D., KAYA T. & MAYDA S. 2005. - Late Miocene large mammals from Yulafli, Thrace region, Turkey, and their biogeographic implications.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50: 523-544.
  • GOHLICH U. B. 1998. - Elephantoidea (Proboscidea, Mammalia) aus dem Mittel- und Obermiozan der Oberen Susswassermolasse Suddeutschlands: Odontologie und Osteologie. Muchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 36: 1-245.
  • GOHLICH U. B. 2010. - The Proboscidea (Mammalia) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (southern Germany).Palaontologische Zeitschrift 84: 163-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542- 010-0053-1
  • GOLOBOFF P. A., FARRIS J. S. & NIXON K. C. 2003. - T.N.T.: Tree Analysis using New Technology. Program and documentation, available from the authors, and at http://www.lillo.org.ar/ phylogeny/ (last access 16th February, 2016).
  • HOPWOOD A. T. 1935. - Fossil Proboscidea from China.Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C 9: 1-108.
  • KALB J. E., FROEHLICH D. J. & BELL G. L. 1996. - Phylogeny of African and Eurasian Elephantoidea of the late Neogene, in SHOSHANI J. & TASSY P. (eds), The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and their Relatives. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 101-116.
  • KONIDARIS G. E., ROUSSIAKIS S. J., THEODOROU G. E. & KOUFOS G. D. 2014. - The Eurasian occurrence of the shovel-tusker Konobelodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea) as illuminated by its presence in the late Miocene of Pikermi (Greece). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:1437-1453.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.873622
  • KOVACHEV D. 2004. - Cranium of Stegotetrabelodon (Proboscideo, Mammalia) from the Neogene in the East Maritsa basin.Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society 65: 167-173.
  • LAMBERT W. D. 1990. - Rediagnosis of the genus Amebelodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae), with a new subgenus and species, Amebelodon (Konobelodon) britti. Journal of Paleontology 64: 1032-1040.
  • LAMBERT W. D. 1992. - The feeding habits of the shovel-tusked gomphotheres: evidence from tusk wear patterns. Paleobiology 18 (2): 132-147.
  • LAMBERT W. D. 1996. - The biogeography of the gomphotheriid proboscideans of North America, in SHOSHANI J. & TASSY P. (eds), The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and their Relatives. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 143-148.
  • LUCAS S. G. & MORGAN G. S. 2008. - The proboscidean Amebelodon from east-central New Mexico and its biochronological significance, in LUCAS S. G., MORGAN G. S., SPIELMANN J. A. & PROTHERO D. R. (eds), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Neogene mammals. State of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs, Albuquerque: 89-91.
  • MADDEN C. T. 1982. - Primitive Stegotetrabelodon from latest Miocene of Subsaharan Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 96: 782-796
  • MAGLIO V. J. 1972. - Evolution of mastication in the Elephantidae. Evolution 26 (4): 638-658.
  • MAGLIO V. J. 1973. - Origin and evolution of the Elephantidae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New series 63: 1-149.
  • MARKOV G. N. 2004. - The fossil proboscideans of Bulgaria and the importance of some Bulgarian finds - a brief review. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 16: 139-150.
  • MARKOV G. N. 2008. - The Turolian proboscideans (Mammalia) of Europe: preliminary observations. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 19: 153-178.
  • MARKOV G. N., KOVACHEV D. & TASSY P. 2014. - A juvenile mandible of "Mastodon" grandincisivus S chlesinger, 1917 from Hadzhidimovo, SW Bulgaria. Abstract Book of the VIth International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives. Scientific Annals of the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, special volume 102: 116.
  • MOTTL M. 1969. - Bedeutende Proboscidier-Neufunde aus dem Altpliozan (Pannonien) Sudost-Osterreichs. Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathemeatisch-naturwissenschaffliche Klasse, Denschriften 115: 1-50.
  • OSBORN H. F. 1936. - Proboscidea: a Monograph of the Discovery, Evolution, Migration and Extinction of the Mastodonts and Elephants of the World. Volume I: Moeritherioidea, Deinotherioidea, Mastodontoidea. The American Museum Press, New York, 802 p.
  • PAVLOW M. 1903. - Mastodon angustidens Cuv. et Mastodon cf. longirostris Kaup, de Kertch.Annuaire Geologique et Mineralogique de la Russie 4: 129-139.
  • PETROCCHI C. 1943. - Il giacimento fossilifero di Sahabi.Collezione Scientifica e Documentaria.A Cura del Ministero Dell'Africa Italiana 12: 69-167.
  • PICKFORD M. 2003. - New Proboscidea from the Miocene strata in the lower Orange River Vally, Namibia. Memoir Geological Survey Namibia 19: 207-256.
  • PRADO J. L. & ALBERDI M. T. 2008. - A cladistic analysis among trilophodont gomphotheres (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with special attention to the south American genera. Palaeontology 51 (4): 903-915. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00785.x
  • QIU Z.-X. & XIE J.-Y. 1998. - Notes on Parelasmotherium and Hipparion fossils from Wangji, Dongxiang, Gansu. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36 (1): 13-23.
  • SANDERS W. J., GHEERBRANT E., HARRIS J. M., SAEGUSA H. & DELMER C. 2010. - Proboscidea, in WERDELIN L. & SANDERS W. J. (eds), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley: 161-251.
  • SCHLESINGER G. 1917. - Die mastodonten des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Denkschriften des K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums, Geologisch-palaontologische Reihe. Wien, Ausgegeben 1: 1-230
  • SCHLESINGER G. 1922. - Die Mastodonten der Budapester Sammlungen. Geologica Hungarica, Editio Separata 2: 1-284.
  • SHI Q.-Q. 2012. - Two Late Miocene Ovibovines from Houshan Locality, Linxia Basin, Gansu Province. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 146 p.
  • SHI Q.-Q. 2014. - New species of Tsaidamotherium (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from China sheds new light on the skull morphology and systematics of the genus. Science China: Earth Science 57 (2): 258-266. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11430-013-4722-2
  • SHI Q.-Q., HE W. & CHEN S.-Q. 2014. - A new species of Shaanxispira (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the upper Miocene of China. Zootaxa 3794 (4): 501-513. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/ zootaxa.3794.4.1
  • SHOSHANI J. 1996. - Para- or monophyly of the gomphotheres and their position within Proboscidea., in SHOSHANI J. & TASSY P. (eds), The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and their Relatives. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 149-177.
  • SISSON S. S. 1953. - The Anatomy of the Domestic Animals (4th Edition). W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 972 p.
  • TASSY P. 1977. - Le plus ancien squelette de gomphothere (Proboscidea, Mammalia) dans la Formation Burdigalienne des sables de l'Orleanais France. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Ser. C, Sciences de la Terre 37: 1-51.
  • TASSY P. 1983a. - Les Elephantoidea Miocenes du Plateau du Potwar, Groupe de Siwalik, Pakistan. Ire Partie: Introduction, Cadre chronologique et geographique, Mammutides, Amebelodontides. Annales de Paleontologie 69: 99-136.
  • TASSY P. 1983b. - Les Elephantoidea Miocenes du Plateau du Potwar, Groups de Siwalik, Pakistan. IIre Partie: Choerolophodontes et gomphotheres. Annales de Paleontologie 69: 235-297.
  • TASSY P. 1985. - La place des mastodontes Miocenes de l'Ancien Monde dans la phylogenie des Proboscidea (Mammalia): hypotheses et conjectures. Unpublished These Doctorat es Sciences, UPMC, Paris, 861 p.
  • TASSY P. 1986. - Nouveaux Elephantoidea (Proboscidea, Mammalia) dans le Miocene du Kenya : essai de reevaluation systematique. Cahiers de Paleontologie. Editions du Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, Paris, 135 p.
  • TASSY P. 1994a. - Gaps, parsimony, and early Miocene elephantoids (Mammalia), with a re-evaluation of Gomphotherium annectens (Matsumoto, 1925). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112: 101-117.
  • TASSY P. 1994b. - Origin and differentiation of the Elephantiformes (Mammalia, Proboscidea). Verhandlungen Naturwissenschaftlicher Verains in Hamburg, N.F. 34: 73-94.
  • TASSY P. 1996. - Who is who among the Proboscidea?, in SHO- SHANI J. & TASSY P. (eds), The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of Elephants and their Relatives. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 39-48.
  • TASSY P. 1999. - Miocene elephantids (Mammalia) from the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Palaeobiogeographic Implications, in WHYBROW P. J. & HILL A. (eds), Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia . Yale University Press, New Haven: 209-233
  • TASSY P. 2013. - L'anatomie cranio-mandibulaire de Gomphotherium angustidens (Cuvier, 1817) (Proboscidea, Mammalia): donnees issues du gisement d'En Pejouan (Miocene moyen du Gers, France). Geodiversitas 35 (2): 377-445. http://dx.doi. org/10.5252/g2013n2a6
  • TASSY P. 2014. - L'odontologie de Gomphotherium angustidens (Cuvier, 1817) (Proboscidea, Mammalia): donnees issues du gisement d'En Pejouan (Miocene moyen du Gers, France). Geodiversitas 36 (1): 35-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/ g2014n1a2
  • TASSY P. & DARLU P. 1986. - Analyse cladistique numerique et analyse de parcimonie; l'exemple des Elephantidae.Geobios 19 (5): 587-600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-6995(86)80056-0
  • TASSY P. & DARLU P. 1987. - Les Elephantidae : nouveau regard sur les analyses de parcimonie. Geobios 20 (4): 487-494. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-6995(87)80082-7
  • TOBIEN H. 1973. - On the evolution of mastodonts (Proboscidea, Mammalia). Part 1: the bunodont trilophodont groups. Notizblatt des Hessischen Landesamtes fur Bodenforschung zuWiesbaden 101: 202-276.
  • TOBIEN H. 1978. - On the evolution of Mastodonts (Proboscidea, Mammalia). Part 2: The bunodont tetralophodont Groups. Geologisches Jahrbuch Hessen 106: 159-208.
  • TOBIEN H., CHEN G.-F. & LI Y.-Q. 1988. - Mastodonts (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Neogene and Early Pleistocene of the People's Republic of China. Part II: historical account: the genera Tetralophodon, Anancus, Stegotetrabelodon, Zygolophodon, Mammut, Stegolophodon. Mainzer geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 17: 95-220.
  • WANG B.-Y. & QIU Z.-X. 2002. - A new species of Platybelodon (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea, Mammalia) from early Miocene of the Danghe area, Gansu, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 40 (4): 291-299.
  • WANG S.-Q. & YE J. 2015. - Paleobiological implications of new material of Platybelodon danovi from the Dingjiaergou Fauna, western China.Historical Biology 27 (8): 987-997. http://dx.doi. org/10.1080/08912963.2014.918967
  • WANG S.-Q., HE W., CHEN S.-Q. & DONG L.-P. 2013a. - A discussion of "Mastodon" grandincisivus based on new findings from the Late Miocene of the Linxia Basin, China., in REITNER J., YANG Q., WANG Y.-D. & REICH M. (eds), Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstatten through Earth History. Universitatsdrucke Gottingen, Gottingen: 176.
  • WANG S.-Q., HE W. & CHEN S.-Q. 2013b. - The gomphotheriid mammal Platybelodon from the middle Miocene of Linxia Basin, Gansu, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58: 221-240. http:// dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0009
  • WANG S.-Q., LIU S.-P., XIE G.-P., LIU J., PENG T.-J. & HOU S.-K. 2013c. - Gomphotherium wimani from Wushan County, China and its implications for the Miocene stratigraphy of the Tianshui Area. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51 (1): 71-84
  • WANG S.-Q., DENG T., TANGT., XIE G.-P., ZHANG Y.-G. & WANG D.-Q. 2015. - Evolution of Protanancus (Proboscidea, Mammalia) in East Asia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.881830
  • YE J., WU W.-Y. & JIA H. 1990. - Reconstruction of the jawclosing muscles of Platybelodon tongxinensis (Amebelodontidae, Proboscidea) and discussion of cranial evolution from long-jawed mastodont to short-jawed elephantid. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28 (4): 284-295.