GAPS, PARSIMONY, AND EARLY MIOCENE ELEPHANTOIDS (MAMMALIA), WITH A REEVALUATION OF GOMPHOTHERIUM ANNECTENS (MATSUMOTO, 1925)

Authors
TASSY P
Citation
P. Tassy, GAPS, PARSIMONY, AND EARLY MIOCENE ELEPHANTOIDS (MAMMALIA), WITH A REEVALUATION OF GOMPHOTHERIUM ANNECTENS (MATSUMOTO, 1925), Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 112(1-2), 1994, pp. 101-117
Citations number
56
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00244082
Volume
112
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
101 - 117
Database
ISI
SICI code
0024-4082(1994)112:1-2<101:GPAEME>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
A new analysis of the morphology of the cranium of the early Miocene s pecies Gomphotherium annectens (Matsumoto, 1925) alters significantly previous hypotheses on the differentiation of Miocene Elephantoidea. T he gomphorheres, excluding shovel-tusked mastodonts and choerolophodon ts, are known to be a paraphyletic grouping: a stem group for elephant ids+stegodontids. From parsimony analyses it seems very likely that ea rly Miocene Old World so-called gomphotheres (Gomphatherium 'annectens group') are not closely related to other gomphotheres.