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Acerorhinus neleus
Discussion
Etymology: Neleus is the name of the main stream that flows in the area of Kerassi.
Taxonomy
Acerorhinus neleus was named by Athanassiou et al. (2014). Its type specimen is AMPG K4/119.37, a skull (skull with articulated mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kerassia 4 (K4), which is in a Miocene terrestrial sandstone in Greece.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2014 | Acerorhinus neleus Athanassiou et al. p. 28 figs. Pl. 1-3 |
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†Acerorhinus neleus Athanassiou et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. Athanassiou et al. 2014 | A large-sized Acerorhinus with narrow dolichocephalic skull, short hornless nasals, moderately concave cranial profile, closely converging parietal crests, rostrally deep zygomatic arch, and bellshaped occipital outline; mandibular symphysis narrow and ventrally concave, with very short diastema; mandibular corpus deep; low and robust mandibular ramus with short coronoid process; long premolar series, though proportionally shorter than in most other Acerorhinus species; cheek teeth with thin cement coating; upper premolars with continuous lingual cingulum, faint protocone constriction, no crista, and weak paracone fold; upper molars with moderate protocone constriction and antecrochet, no crista, and marked paracone fold; lower premolars with continuous crenulated labial cingulum. |
Measurements
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.60800 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Euboea) | Rhinocerotidae indet. (type locality: 195435) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Attica) | Acerotherium sp. (182754) |