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Deinogalerix samniticus
Taxonomy
Deinogalerix samniticus was named by Savorelli et al. (2017). Its type specimen is SCT 246, a mandible, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Scontrone, near, which is in a Tortonian terrestrial limestone in the Lithothamnion Limestone Formation of Italy.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Deinogalerix samniticus Savorelli et al. p. 9 figs. Figs. 5, 6 |
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†Deinogalerix samniticus Savorelli et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Savorelli et al. 2017 | Deinogalerix samniticus sp. nov. differs from all the other species of Deino- galerix by having proportionally a smaller p3 and a larger p4. Compared to D. koenigswaldi, D. samnit- icus sp. nov. has smaller overall size; smaller p3, m1, and m2; cheek teeth lower-crowned, imper- fectly divided protocone-hypocone in P3 (Figure 4.7-8); lower protocone in P4; more acute anterola- bial corner in M3; lingually-closed trigonid basin and less-defined paraconid in p4; m1 with broad, trigonid not concave lingually, and with mesiolin- gual bulge dipping downward and protruding lin-
gually; strong and continuous mesiolabial cingulum in m2; labially-prominent hypoconid in m3. Deinogalerix samniticus sp. nov. differs from D. freudenthali by being larger sized, but also by possessing: larger p4 and m1; slightly more buno- dont teeth; M3 with faint protoconule and more developed parastyle; trigonid of m1 with slightly lower lingual enamel wall and mesiolingual bulge dipping downward and protruding lingually; m2 with longer mesiolabial cingulum. Deinogalerix samniticus sp. nov. differs from D. masinii by having: larger teeth (especially p4 and m1); smaller protocone, imperfectly divided protocone-hypocone and not well defined parastyle in P3; faint protoconule and more developed para- style in M3; stronger and longer mesiolabial cingu- lum in m2. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||