A New Species of Hapalodectes (Hapalodectidae, Mesonychia) from the Paleocene of Mongolia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A New Species of Hapalodectes (Hapalodectidae, Mesonychia) from the Paleocene of Mongolia

Published:2023-09-28 Issue:1 Volume:513 Page:361-367
ISSN:0012-4966
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language:en
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Author:

Lopatin A. V.

Abstract

Abstract Hapalodectes paradux sp. nov. (Hapalodectidae, Mesonychia) is described on the base of the dentary fragment with M2–M3 from the Tsagan-Khushu locality in Mongolia (Upper Paleocene, Naran Bulak Formation, Zhigden Member). The M2 and M3 are approximately the same size, with a high protoconid, anteriorly displaced reduced metaconid, anterolingually directed protocristid, very deep posterior notch, narrow talonid, and distinct hypoconid, entoconid and hypoconulid. Based on dental characters, the new species is presumably related to the base of the lineage of Hapalodectes that dispersed to North America at the beginning of the Eocene. Tsagan-Khushu is the only known locality where two species of Hapalodectes co-occur (larger H. dux Lopatin, 2001 and smaller H. paradux sp. nov.).

Publisher

Pleiades Publishing Ltd

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134/S0012496623700709.pdf

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