Early Cretaceous symmetrodont mammal Gobiotheriodon from Mongolia and the classification of Symmetrodonta

• Autorzy: Averianov A O
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The “symmetrodont” mammal, Gobiotheriodon infinitus (Trofimov, 1980), from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Mongolia, is redescribed.The species is restricted to the holotype only (dentary with three last molars), the referred maxillary fragment with M3? is considered here as cf. Gobiconodon sp.The dental formula of G. infinitusis reinterpreted as i1–3 c1 p1–3 m1–4. G. infinitus is characterized by a short dentary symphysis; long, well−developed Meckel's groove; small, triangular−shaped pterygoid fossa; weakly developed pterygoid crest; i3 enlarged; p1–3 two−rooted; lower molars acute− to obtuse−angled, labial cingulids lacking, lingual cingulids very short, well developed mesial and distal cingulid cuspules (“e” and “d”) and prominent wear surface on the paracristid. Gobiotheriodon is similar to Tinodon (Late Jurassic, USA; Early Cretaceous, Great Britain and Portugal) in postcanine dental formula and structure of the pterygoid fossa; it is provisionally assigned to Tinodontidae Marsh, 1887.Some taxa previously assigned to (or suggested as possible relatives of) “Symmetrodonta” are reviewed.Amphidontidae Simpson, 1925 is considered as nomen dubium.A new classification for “Symmetrodonta” is proposed.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Gobiotheriodon infinitus; systematics; classification; Early Cretaceous; mammal; Cretaceous; Mongolia; Gobiotheriodon; paleontology

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: 47
• Numer: 4
• Opis fizyczny: p.705-716,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Averianov A O

• Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab.1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Bibliografia

• Archibald, J.D. and Averianov, A.O. 2001. Notes on the eutherian mammal Paranyctoides and allies from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia. Acta Paleontologica Polonica 46: 533–551.
• Belyaeva, E.I., Trofimov, B.A., and Reshetov, V.Ju. 1974. General stages in evolution of late Mesozoic and early Tertiary mammalian fauna in Central Asia [in Russian]. Trudy Sovmestnoj Sovetsko−Mongol’skoj Paleontologičeskoj Ekspedicii 1: 19–45.
• Benton, M.J. 2000. Conventions in Russian and Mongolian paleontological literature. In: M.J. Benton, M.A. Shishkin, D.M. Unwin, and E.N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, xvi–xxxix. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Blainville H.M.D.de. 1838. Doutes sur le prétendu Didelphe de Stonesfield. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences 7: 402–418.
• Bonaparte, J.F. 1990. New Late Cretaceous mammals from the Los Alamitos Formation, northern Patagonia.National Geographic Research 6: 63–93.
• Bonaparte, J.F. 1994. Approach to significance of the Late Cretaceous mammals of South America.Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen E 13: 31–44.
• Butler, P.M. 1997. An alternative hypothesis on the origin of docodont molar teeth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17: 435–439.
• Cassiliano, M.L. and Clemens, W.A. 1979. Symmetrodonta. In: J.A. Lillegraven, Z. Kielan−Jaworowska, and W.A. Clemens (eds.), Mesozoic Mammals: the First Two−thirds of Mammalian History, 151–161. University of California Press, Berkeley.
• Chow, M. and Rich, T.H.V. 1982. Shuotherium dongi, n.gen.and sp., a therian with pseudo−tribosphenic molars from the Jurassic of Sichuan, China. Australian Mammalogy 5: 127–142.
• Cifelli, R.L. 1990. Cretaceous mammals of southern Utah. IV. Eutherian mammals from the Wahweap (Aquilan) and Kaiparowits (Judithian) formations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10: 346–360.
• Cifelli, R.L. 1999. Therian teeth of unusual design from the medial Cretaceous (Albian–Cenomanian) Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6: 247–270.
• Cifelli, R.L. 2000. Cretaceous mammals of Asia and North America. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea, Special Publication 4: 49–85.
• Cifelli, R.L. and Gordon, C.L. 1999. Symmetrodonts from the Late Cretaceous of southern Utah and distribution of archaic mammals in the Cretaceous of North America. In: D.Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, 1–15. Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publications 99−1.
• Cifelli, R.L. and Madsen, S.K. 1999. Spalacotheriid symmetrodonts (Mammalia) from the medial Cretaceous (upper Albian or lower Cenomanian) Mussentuchit local fauna, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. Geodiversitas 21: 167–214.
• Cifelli, R.L., Madsen, S.K., Sigogneau−Russell, D., Kielan−Jaworowska, Z., and Maxwell, W.D. 2000. Early Cretaceous “symmetrodont” from Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (Supplement): 35A–35A.
• Clemens, W.A. 1963. Late Jurassic mammalian fossils in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Palaeontology 6: 373–377.
• Crompton, A.W. 1971. The origin of the tribosphenic molar. In: D.M. Kermack and K.A. Kermack (eds.), Early Mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 50 (Supplement 1): 65–87.
• Crompton, A.W. 1974. The dentitions and relationships of the southern African Triassic mammals Erythrotherium parringtoni and Megazostrodon rudnerae.Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 24: 397–437.
• Crompton, A.W. and Jenkins, F.A., Jr. 1967. American Jurassic symmetrodonts and Rhaetic “pantotheres”. Science 155, 1006–1009.
• Crompton, A.W. and Jenkins, F.A., Jr. 1968. Molar occlusion in Late Triassic mammals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 43: 427–458.
• Datta, P.M. 1981. The first Jurassic mammal from India. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 73: 307–312.
• Ensom, P.C. and Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1998. New dryolestoid mammals from the basal Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone group of southern England. Palaeontology 41: 35–55.
• Ensom, P.C. and Sigogneau−Russell, D. 2000. New symmetrodonts (Mammalia, Theria) from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Lower Cretaceous, southern England. Cretaceous Research 21: 767–779.
• Fox, R.C. 1972. An Upper Cretaceous symmetrodont from Alberta, Canada. Nature 239: 170–171.
• Fox, R.C. 1975. Molar structure and function in the Early Cretaceous mammal Pappotherium: evolutionary implications for Mesozoic Theria. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12: 412–442.
• Fox, R.C. 1976. Additions to the mammalian local fauna from Upper Milk River Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13: 1105–1118.
• Fox, R.C. 1984a. A primitive, “obtuse−angled” symmetrodont (Mammalia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 1204–1207.
• Fox, R.C. 1984b. Paranyctoides maleficus (new species), an early eutherian mammal from the Cretaceous of Alberta. In: M.R. Dawson (ed.), Papers in Vertebrate Paleontology Honoring Robert Warren Wilson, 9–20. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Special Publication 9.
• Fox, R.C. 1985. Upper molar structure in the Late Cretaceous symmetrodont Symmetrodontoides Fox, and a classification of the Symmetrodonta (Mammalia). Journal of Paleontology 59: 21–26.
• Gambaryan, P.P. and Kielan−Jaworowska, Z. 1995. Masticatory musculature of Asian taeniolabidoid multituberculate mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40: 45–108.
• Gill, P.G. 1974. Resorption of premolars in the early mammal Kuehneotherium praecursoris. Archives of Oral Biology 19: 327–328.
• Hopson, J.A. 1994. Synapsid evolution and the radiation of non−eutherian mammals. In: D.R. Prothero and R.M. Schoch (convenors), R.S. Spencer (series editor), Major Features of Vertebrate Evolution. Short Courses in Paleontology 7: 190–219.Paleontological Society, Knoxville, Tennessee.
• Hu, Y., Wang, Y., Luo, Z.−X., and Li, Ch. 1997. A new symmetrodont mammal from China and its implications for mammalian evolution. Nature 390: 137–142.
• Hu, Y., Wang, Y., Li, Ch., and Luo, Z.−X. 1998. Morphology of dentition and forelimb of Zhangheotherium. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36: 102–125.
• Kermack, D.M., Kermack, K.A., and Mussett, F. 1968. The Welsh pantothere Kuehneotherium praecursoris. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 47: 407–423.
• Kermack, K.A. and Mussett, F. 1958. The jaw articulation of the Docodonta and the classification of Mesozoic mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London 149: 204–215.
• Kielan−Jaworowska, Z. and Dashzeveg, D. 1998. Early Cretaceous amphilestid (“triconodont”) mammals from Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 43: 413–438.
• Kielan−Jaworowska, Z., Novacek, M.J., Trofimov, B.A., and Dashzeveg, D. 2000. Mammals from the Mesozoic of Mongolia. In: M.J. Benton, M.A. Shishkin, D.M. Unwin, and E.N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 573–626.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Krusat, G. 1989. Isolated molars of a triconodont and a symmetrodont (Mammalia) from the uppermost Jurassic of Portugal. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 106: 277–289.
• Kühne, W.G. 1950. A symmetrodont tooth from the Rhaeto−Lias. Nature 166: 696–697.
• Lillegraven, J.A. and Krusat, G. 1991. Cranio−mandibular anatomy of Haldanodon exspectatus (Docodonta; Mammalia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and its implications to the evolution of mammalian characters. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 28: 39–138.
• Luo, Z.−X., Cifelli, R.L. and Kielan−Jaworowska, Z. 2001. Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals. Nature 409: 53–57.
• Luo, Z.−X., Kielan−Jaworowska, Z., and Cifelli, R.L. 2002. In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47: 1–78.
• Marsh, O.C. 1879. Additional remains of Jurassic mammals. American Journal of Science and Arts 18: 215–216.
• Marsh, O.C. 1887. American Jurassic mammals. American Journal of Science 33: 326–348.
• Martin, T. 1999. Dryolestidae (Dryolestoidea, Mammalia) aus dem Oberen Jura von Portugal. Abhandlungen der senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 550: 1–119.
• Martin, T. 2002. New stem−lineage representatives of Zatheria (Mammalia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22: 332–348.
• Martin, T. and Averianov, A.O. (in press). A new docodont from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghizia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
• McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. xii +631 pp. Columbia University Press, New York.
• Mills, J.R.E. 1964. The dentition of Peramus and Amphitherium. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 175: 117–133.
• Musser, A.M. and Archer, M. 1998. New information about the skull and dentary of the Miocene platypus Obdurodon dicksoni, and a discussion of ornithorhynchid relationships. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 353: 1063–1079.
• Nessov, L.A. [Nesov, L.A.] 1997. Cretaceous Non−marine Vertebrates of Northern Eurasia [in Russian with English summary].University of Saint Petersburg, Institute of the Earth Crust, Saint Petersburg. 218 pp. (Posthumous edition by L.B. Golovneva and A.O. Averianov).
• Pascual, R.and Goin, F.J. 2001. Non−tribosphenic Gondwanan mammals, and the alternative attainment of molars with a reversed triangle cusp pattern. In: H.A. Leanza (ed.), VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, 157–162. Buenos Aires.
• Pascual, R., Goin, F. J., González, P., Ardolino, A., and Puerta, P. 2000. A highly derived docodont from the Patagonian Late Cretaceous: evolutionary implications for Gondwanan mammals. Geodiversitas 22: 395–414.
• Patterson, B. 1956. Early Cretaceous mammals and the evolution of mammalian molar teeth. Fieldiana: Geology 13: 1–105.
• Prasad, G.V.R. and Manhas, B.K. 1997. Anew symmetrodont mammal from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation, Pranhita−Godavari valley, India. Geobios 30: 563–572.
• Prothero, D.R. 1981. New Jurassic mammals from Como Bluff, Wyoming, and the interrelationships of non−tribosphenic Theria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 167: 277–326.
• Rauhut, O.W.M., Martin, T., Ortiz−Jaureguizar, E., and Puerta, P.F. 2002. A Jurassic mammal from South America. Nature 416: 165–168.
• Rougier, G.W., Wible, J.R., and Hopson, J.A. 1996a. Basicranial anatomy of Priacodon fruitaensis (Triconodontidae, Mammalia) from the Late Jurassic of Colorado, and a reappraisal of mammaliaform interrelationships. American Museum Novitates 3183: 1–38.
• Rougier, G.W., Wible, J.R., and Novacek, M.J. 1996b. Middle−ear ossicles of Kryptobataar dashzevegi (Mammalia, Multituberculata): implications for mammaliamorph relationships and evolution of the auditory apparatus. American Museum Novitates 3187: 1–43.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1983. Anew therian mammal from the Rhaetic locality of Saint−Nicolas−de−Port (France). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 78: 175–186.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1989. Découverte du premier Symmétrodonte (Mammalia) du continent african. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série II 309: 921–926.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1991. Nouveaux Mammifères thériens du Crétacé inférieur du Maroc. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série II 313: 279–285.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1998. Discovery of a Late Jurassic Chinese mammal in the upper Bathonian of England. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 327: 571–576.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1999. Réévaluation des Peramura (Mammalia, Cladotheria) sur la base de nouveaux spécimens du Crétacé inférieur d’Angleterre et du Maroc. Geodiversitas 21: 93–127.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. and Ensom, P.C. 1998. Thereuodon (Theria, Symmetrodonta) from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe and a brief review of symmetrodonts. Cretaceous Research 19: 445–470.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. and Godefroit, P. 1997. Aprimitive docodont (Mammalia) from the Upper Triassic of France and the possible therian affinities of the order. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Paris, Série IIa 324: 135–140.
• Sigogneau−Russell, D. and Hahn, R. 1995. Reassessment of the late Triassic symmetrodont mammal Woutersia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40: 245–260.
• Simpson, G.G. 1925. Mesozoic Mammalia.II: Tinodon and its allies. American Journal of Science, Series 5 10: 451–470.
• Simpson, G.G. 1928. A Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum.x + 215 pp. British Museum (Natural History), London.
• Simpson, G.G. 1929. American Mesozoic Mammalia. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University 3, 1–235.
• Trofimov, B.A. 1980. Multituberculata and Symmetrodonta from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia [in Russian]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 251: 209–212.
• Trofimov, B.A. 1997. A new generic name Gobiotheriodon for a symmetrodont mammal Gobiodon Trofimov, 1980. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42: 496.
• Wang, Y., Clemens, W.A., Hu, Y., and Li, Ch. 1998. A probable pseudotribosphenic upper molar from the Late Jurassic of China and the early radiation of the Holotheria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 777–787.
• Wang, Y., Hu, Y., Li, C., and Chang, Z. 2001. Recent advances on the study of Mesozoic mammals from China. In: H.A.Leanza (ed.), VII International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, 179–184. Buenos Aires.
• Wible, J.R., Rougier, G.W., Novacek, M.J., McKenna, M.C., and Dashzeveg, D. 1995. A mammalian petrosal from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia: implications for the evolution of the ear region and mammaliamorph interrelationships. American Museum Novitates 3149: 1–19.
• Yabe, H.and Shikama, T. 1938. Anew Jurassic Mammalia from south Manchuria. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Tokyo 14: 353–357.
• Yadagiri, P. 1985. An amphidontid symmetrodont from the Early Jurassic Kota Formation, India. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 411–417.
• Zhang, F. 1984. Fossil record of Mesozoic mammals of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 22: 29–38.
• Zhou, M., Cheng, Z., and Wang, Y. 1991. A mammalian lower jaw from the Jurassic of Lingyuan, Liaoning. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 29: 165–175.
• Addendum
• Kielan−Jaworowska, Z., Cifelli, R.L., and Luo, Z.−X. 2002. Dentition and relationships of the Jurassic mammal Shuotherium. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47: 479–486.