Propalaeotherium Gervais 1849
Description
Genus Propalaeotherium Gervais, 1849
EMENDED DIAGNOSIS OF GENUS (according to Remy et al. 2016). — Small to large equoids with estimated skull length from 120 to about 250 millimeters; dental formula: 3.1.4.3/3.1.4.3; brachylophodont
dentition; upper molars with more or less pronounced mesostyle;
upper premolars non-molariform, lacking hypocone; mesostyle on P3-4/ and entoconid on P/3-4 only present in youngest species; lower cheek teeth without paraconid; lower molars with rounded crescentic lobes and twinned prominent rnetaconid; lingual cingula on upper molars, usually weak or absent; lower cheek teeth with more or less developed labial cingula, but with weak or absent lingual cingula; rather short postcanine diastema. Propalaeotherium differs from Eurohippus by a wider skull and narrower ramus with regard to its height.
TYPE SPECIES. — Propalaeotherium isselanum (Cuvier, 1824).
INCLUDED SPECIES. — Pr. argentonicum Gervais, 1849, Pr. gaudryi (Lemoine, 1878) (synonym of Propachynolophus gaudryi Lemoine, 1878; see Remy 2017), Pr. hassiacum Haupt, 1925, Pr. helveticum Savage, Russell, Louis, 1965, Pr. voigti Matthes, 1977.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Palaeotheriidae
- Genus
- Propalaeotherium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perissodactyla
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gervais
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Propalaeotherium Gervais, 1849 sec. Remy, Krasovec, Lopez, Marandat & Lihoreau, 2019
References
- REMY J. A., KRASOVEC G. & MARANDAT B. 2016. - A new species of Propalaeotherium (Palaeotheriidae, Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Middle Eocene locality of Aumelas (Herault, France). Palaeovertebrata 40 (2): 1 - 8, supp. data 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.18563 / pv. 40.2. e 1
- REMY J. A. 2017. - Critical comments on the genus Propachynolophus Lemoine, 1891 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equoidea). Palaeovertebrata 41 (1) - e 3: 1 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.18563 / pv. 41.1. e 3
- SAVAGE D. E., RUSSELL D. E. & LOUIS P. 1965. - European Eocene Equidae (Perissodactyla). University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, vol. 56, 94 p.