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Titre
Duerotherium sudrei gen. Et sp. Nov., a new anoplotheriinae artiodactyl from the Middle Eocene of the Iberian Peninsula
Autor(es)
Sujet
Eoceno
Península Ibérica
Artiodáctyla
Eocene
Iberian Peninsula
Clasificación UNESCO
2416 Paleontología
Fecha de publicación
2009
Éditeur
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Citación
Cuesta, M. Á. and Badiola, A. (2009): Duerotherium sudrei gen. Et sp. Nov., a new anoplotheriinae artiodactyl from the Middle Eocene of the Iberian Peninsula. J.Vert.Paleont. , 29 (1): 303-308.
Resumen
[EN] Anoplotheriines were endemic artiodactyl faunas in Europe
during the Eocene. Europe was made up of several large
and small islands from the late Early Eocene to the earliest
Oligocene (e.g., Meulenkamp et al., 2000), and was inhabited
by an endemic mammalian fauna that was clearly different
from contemporary faunae in North America and Asia. Anoplotheriines
were medium- to large-sized ungulates with brachydont
and bunoseledont dentition and likely used terrestrial
locomotion (Sudre, 1988). Hooker (2007) recognized a bipedal
browsing adaptation for the large Anoplotherium species,
which would have been able to browse 2-3 m above
the ground with no competition from other contemporaneous
European terrestrial mammals. Anoplotheriines are regarded
as members of the immigrant taxa that appeared on the Central
European Island around the Middle-Late Eocene transition.
They seem to have originated within Europe, but their
area of origin and the dispersal directions that they took
through the different areas of the Eocene European archipelago
are still poorly characterized.
URI
ISSN
0272-4634
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