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Merycoides longiceps
Taxonomy
Mesoreodon longiceps was named by Douglass (1907). Its type specimen is AMNH 9732, a partial skeleton (A nearly complete skull with the mandible, the cervical, lumbar, and sacral vertebrae, portions of most of the dorsal vertebrae, a scapula, a pelvis, a femur, a), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is North Boulder Valley, which is in a Harrisonian terrestrial horizon in the Renova Formation of Montana.
It was recombined as Pseudodesmatochoerus longiceps by Schultz and Falkenbach (1954); it was recombined as Merycoides longiceps by Loomis (1924), Schlaikjer (1934), Thorpe (1937), Lander (1998), Tabrum and Nichols (2001), Stevens and Stevens (2007) and Stevens et al. (2023).
It was recombined as Pseudodesmatochoerus longiceps by Schultz and Falkenbach (1954); it was recombined as Merycoides longiceps by Loomis (1924), Schlaikjer (1934), Thorpe (1937), Lander (1998), Tabrum and Nichols (2001), Stevens and Stevens (2007) and Stevens et al. (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1907 | Mesoreodon longiceps Douglass p. 811 figs. 1 - 5 |
| 1924 | Merycoides longiceps Loomis |
| 1934 | Merycoides longiceps Schlaikjer |
| 1937 | Merycoides longiceps Thorpe p. 174 figs. Figs. 5, 126-128 |
| 1954 | Pseudodesmatochoerus longiceps Schultz and Falkenbach p. 207 figs. 12-15, 23-25 |
| 1998 | Merycoides longiceps Lander |
| 2001 | Merycoides longiceps Tabrum and Nichols |
| 2007 | Merycoides longiceps Stevens and Stevens p. 163 |
| 2023 | Merycoides longiceps Stevens et al. p. 29 figs. Figure 23A-C; Appendix 1C; Table A5 |
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†Merycoides longiceps Douglass 1907
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| E. Douglass 1907 | Skull long,especially the posterior portion; braincase large and full; nasals and frontals arching; sagittal crest sessile, represented by a small low ridge, median pillar of occiput broad; space between paroccipital and post glenoid processes unusually large; palate produced considerably posterior to last molar; teeth but slightly hypsodont | |
| C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach 1954 | SKULL: Medium size; smallest known form of the genus; supraoccipital wings comparatively small, more widely spread than in examples of P. hoffmani and P. milleri; sagittal crest similar to examples of P. milleri, medial depression on sagittal crest less pronounced than in P. hoffmani; brain case more inflated, rounder, and shorter than in latter two species; nasals shorter and wider than in other species of genus (anterior nasal-maxilla contact farther down on the side of the face than in other forms of genus), anterior retraction less than in P. hoffmani, more so than in P. wascoensis; anterior nasal-maxilla contact above posterior portion of P 1 ; posterior portion of zygomatic arch comparatively light (similar to supposed female examples of P. hoffmani and P. milleri), lighter than in holotype of P. wascoensis, posterior border with less posterior rise than in two former species (more like P. wascoensis in this respect); infraorbital foramen above posterior portion of P8; lacrimal fossa larger and deeper than in other species of the genus; facial vacuity questionable; occipital condyles similar to examples of P. hoffmani and P. milleri, lighter than P. wascoensis,· paroccipital process similar to that of P. milleri; bulla suggesting a form similar to that of P. hoffmani (large and with some lateral compression); postglenoid process peg-shaped, light, and high; posterior palate projecting posteriorly for longer distance beyond M3 than in examples of other species of this genus.
MANDIBLE: Postsymphysis below p3; posterior border of ascending ramus comparatively robust; condyle larger than in P. milleri, approximately equal to that of P. hoffmani. DENTITION: Smallest known series of genus; lighter than examples of P. hoffmani and P. milleri (similar to those of P. wascoensis in this respect) ; diastema between P1 and P2 shorter than in other examples of the genus. LIMBS:Within size range of examples of P. hoffmani. | |
| M. S. Stevens et al. 2023 | Merycoides specimens with a significantly longer and larger skull than M. cursor. |