A partial skeleton of Deinotherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the late Middle Miocene Gratkorn locality (Austria)

作者：Aiglstorfer Manuela^*; Goehlich Ursula B; Boehme Madelaine; Gross Martin

来源：Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2014, 94(1): 49-70.

DOI：10.1007/s12549-013-0140-x

• Biostratigraphy
• Biochronology
• Styria
• Sarmatian
• Central Europe
• Deinotherium levius
• Deinotherium giganteum

A disarticulated, though still roughly associated partial Deinotherium skeleton from the late Middle Miocene (late Sarmatian sensu stricto; 12.2-12.0 Ma) Gratkorn locality (Austria) is described. Based on dimensions and morphology of the material it can be determined as a medium-sized taxon of Deinotheriidae and definitively assigned to the genus Deinotherium. This specimen from Gratkorn confirms the osteological differences in the postcrania between Prodeinotherium and Deinotherium. As the diagnostically important p/3 is missing on the specimen it can only be assigned to Deinotherium levius vel giganteum. The Gratkorn specimen is one of not many skeletons of a medium-sized taxon of Deinotheriidae and one of only a few well-dated late Middle Miocene occurrences in Central Europe with associated dental and postcranial material.

• 出版日期2014-3