DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.022
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85052114890
论文题名: Mustelids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Monte Tuttavista fissure fillings (Early and Middle Pleistocene; Orosei, Sardinia): Taxonomy and evolution of the insular Sardinian Galictini
作者: Rook L. ; Bartolini Lucenti S. ; Tuveri C. ; Arca M.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 197 起始页码: 209
结束页码: 223
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Endemism
; Enhydrictis
; Mustelidae
; New species
; Pannonictis
; Plio-Pleistocene
; Sardinia
Scopus关键词: Geology
; Natural sciences
; Endemism
; Enhydrictis
; Mustelidae
; New species
; Pannonictis
; Plio-pleistocene
; Sardinia
; Mammals
; biogeography
; conspecific
; endemic species
; endemism
; Eocene
; evolutionary theory
; fissure
; morphometry
; mustelid
; new species
; Paleogene
; paleontology
; Pleistocene
; Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary
; skeletal remains
; taxonomy
; Italy
; Monte Tuttavista
; Nuoro
; Sardinia
; Sardinia
; Carnivora
; Mammalia
; Mustelidae
; Vertebrata
英文摘要: The insular environment of Sardinia is renowned for its extensive palaeontological Palaeogene record, extending from the Eocene until recent times. In Sardinia, one of the most important localities for Quaternary faunas is the fillings of the karst fissures of the Monte Tuttavista site complex, which contain an impressive amount of fossil remains of around 70 vertebrate taxa. Several studies that have examined the network of the karst fissure cavities and their fossils have revealed some issues regarding the biochronological ordering, as well as some peculiarities in the recovered faunal associations (such as the presence of several carnivores). In this study, we analysed the record of the two large mustelids from this site, the genera Pannonictis and Enhydrictis. Our analyses point out several singular morphological and morphometric features of these taxa that suggest their attribution to two new species, Pannonictis baroniensis nov. sp. and Enhydrictis praegalictoides nov. sp. The proportions and the robust morphologies of P. baroniensis resemble those of other European taxa, such as P. pliocaenica, although other dentognatic and cranial features exclude a conspecific identity with previously known taxa. Conversely, E. praegalictoides represents the earliest member of the genus and shows a mixed pattern of derived features that are shared with the peculiar E. galictoides recovered from other Middle-Late Pleistocene Sardinian localities, as well as other more primitive characteristics that do not occur in this endemic mustelid. Considering the controversial debate regarding the evolutionary history of the tribe Galictini, the record of these new endemic species expands our knowledge of the systematics and the biogeography of the galictines and enriches the diversity of the tribe during the Early and Middle Pleistocene. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112055
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作者单位: Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, Firenze, 50121, Italy; Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, Pisa, 56126, Italy; Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Sassari e Nuoro (Ufficio Operativo di Nuoro), Via G. Asproni 8Nuoro 08100, Italy
Recommended Citation:
Rook L.,Bartolini Lucenti S.,Tuveri C.,et al. Mustelids (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Monte Tuttavista fissure fillings (Early and Middle Pleistocene; Orosei, Sardinia): Taxonomy and evolution of the insular Sardinian Galictini[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,197