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Plesiomeryx huerzeleri Berger 1959

Description

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),

Notes

Published as part of Blondel, Cecile, 2005, New data on the Cainotheriidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the early Oligocene of south-western France, pp. 145-166 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (2) on page 152, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00166.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5433855

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MP
Family
Cainotheriidae
Genus
Plesiomeryx
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MP28
Order
Artiodactyla
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Berger
Species
huerzeleri
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Plesiomeryx huerzeleri Berger, 1959 sec. Blondel, 2005

References

  • Berger FE. 1959. Untersuchungen an Schadel und Gebissresten von Cainotheriidae. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 112: 1 - 58.
  • Dehm R. 1937. Neue tertiare Spaltenfullungen im sudlichen frankischen Jura (vorlaufige Mitteilung). Zentralblatt fur Mineralogie, usw, Abteilung B 9: 349 - 369.