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Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Megantereon adroveri from the Early Pleistocene of Taurida Cave, Crimea, and the European Lineage of Dirk-toothed Cats |
Data: | 2022 |
Resum: | Recent field surveys performed in the newly-discovered Taurida Cave (Crimea, Russia, Late Villafranchian, 1. 8-1. 5 Ma) enabled us to unearth dentognathic remains of the dirk-toothed cat Megantereon. Here we describe in detail the recovered remains further comparing it anatomically and biometrically with coeval Eurasian and African sites. The performed analysis suggests the inclusion of the Taurida remains in the hypodigm of the Villafranchain European species Megantereon adroveri, a medium-sized saber-toothed cat poorly known in Europe as a consequence of the scarcity and fragmentary nature of the known remains. Our results and the putative transitional characters displayed by the Taurida specimen support the idea put forward by previous authors of a continuous European lineage of dirk-toothed cats. |
Ajuts: | Agencia Estatal de Investigación CGL2017-82654-P Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-116 |
Nota: | Altres ajuts: CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya |
Drets: | Tots els drets reservats. |
Llengua: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
Matèria: | Megantereon ; Machairodontinae ; Mandibular corpus ; Pleistocene ; Late Villafranchian ; Crimea ; Russia |
Publicat a: | Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Vol. 29 (2022) , p. 43-49, ISSN 1573-7055 |
Postprint 17 p, 2.1 MB |