NDLI: The early Turolian (late Miocene) Cervidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the fossil site of Dorn-Dürkheim 1 (Germany) and implications on the origin of crown cervids

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Author	Azanza, Beatriz Rössner, Gertrud E. Ortiz Jaureguizar, Edgardo
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Dental and cranial appendage remains of Cervidae from the fossil site of Dorn-Dürkheim are studied in detail. The material mainly includes isolated teeth, isolated pedicles and antler pieces. Neither tooth rows nor complete appendages are recorded. Comparative morphology and statistics of morphometrics (principal component analysis and discriminant analysis) allow for the classification of small and large dentitions, small cranial appendages, two morphotypes of large pedicles and two morphotypes of large antlers. Possible combinations of the classified units document the sympatric occurrence of three species, namely, Procapreolus sp., Muntiacinae gen. and sp. indet., cf. Cervavitulus mimus, but the fragmentary condition of the material leads to ambiguity regarding their composition and, consequently, to a certain extent regarding the taxonomic identification. However, these remains indicate the contemporaneous occurrence of early Turolian members of the crown cervids Muntiacinae and Capreolinae and close a previous spatiotemporal gap in the European cervid record. In addition, their presence proves the progressive turnover from dichotomous-antlered muntiacines to early monopodial-antlered crown cervids from NE to SW Europe in the late Miocene. The taxonomical assignment challenges the recent hypothesis on the origin of crown Cervidae around the middle/late Miocene border since Dorn-Dürkheim cervids provide further evidence for the successive achievement of derived characters in cranial appendages of crown cervids (mediopostorbital position and backwards orientation of pedicles, coronet development, shaft development/elongation, beam development and increase in number of antler tines) in the lineage of crown cervids, which originated during the middle Miocene.
Starting Page	217
Ending Page	258
Page Count	42
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ISSN	18671594
Journal	Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Volume Number	93
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18671608
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2013-05-14
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Muntiacinae Capreolinae Comparative morphology Morphometrics Cranial appendages Dentition Paleontology Biodiversity Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Freshwater & Marine Ecology
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Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Geology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Global and Planetary Change Paleontology

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