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New species of Tsaidamotherium (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from China sheds new light on the skull morphology and systematics of the genus

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作者Shi, QQ(史勤勤)
刊名SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
出版日期2014
卷号57期号:2页码:57,258-266
关键词Linxia Basin Late Miocene Bovidae Tsaidamotherium Ovibovini
ISSN号1674-7313
通讯作者Shi, QQ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China.
英文摘要A new species of Tsaidamotherium (Bovidae, Artiodactyla), T. brevirostrum, described here represents only the second discovery of the genus. Tsaidamotherium is a mid-sized late Miocene bovid with an odd-looking plate-like horn-core apparatus so far known only from northwestern China. The holotype of T. brevirostrum is a cranial part of skull from the Liushu Formation (late Miocene) of the Linxia Basin. The new species differs from the type species, T. bohlini, mainly. in horn-core morphology, having the frontal horn-cores proper much smaller and less distinctly separated from the plate-shaped posterior portion. Furthermore, the new species has smaller frontal sinuses, but a thicker layer of compact bone beneath the horn-core apparatus as seen in frontal section. A complete skull with a smaller horn-core apparatus is considered to represent a female individual of T. brevirostrum. The facial part of the skull, which is first known for this genus, is very short and high, with a high nasal cavity, strongly retracted nasals, and shortened premaxillae and premolar rows. All this probably suggests that the animal with an enlarged nasal cavity, like the modern Saiga and Budorcas, may have had a special adaptation to the high plateau environment.
收录类别SCI
资助信息Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB03020104]; National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB821900]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41002010, 40730210]
语种英语
公开日期2014-12-12
源URL[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5183]  
专题古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古哺乳动物研究室
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Shi, QQ. New species of Tsaidamotherium (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from China sheds new light on the skull morphology and systematics of the genus[J]. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,2014,57(2):57,258-266.
APA Shi, QQ.(2014).New species of Tsaidamotherium (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from China sheds new light on the skull morphology and systematics of the genus.SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,57(2),57,258-266.
MLA Shi, QQ."New species of Tsaidamotherium (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from China sheds new light on the skull morphology and systematics of the genus".SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES 57.2(2014):57,258-266.

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