Lartetotherium
| Lartetotherium Temporal range: Miocene
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| Lartetotherium sansaniense skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Family: | Rhinocerotidae |
| Genus: | †Lartetotherium Ginsburg, 1974 |
| Species: | †L. sansaniense
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| †Lartetotherium sansaniense Ginsburg, 1974
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Dicerorhinus sansaniensis | |
Lartetotherium is an extinct genus of rhinocerotid that lived during the Miocene in Europe[1] and possibly China.[2]
The type species Lartetotherium sansaniense was a unique cursorial rhinoceros with a distinctly long horn. Its teeth were brachyodont, indicating its diet contained a high quantity of soft plants and a lower proportion of woody material.[3]
A 2023 study reassigned the species Dicerorhinus cixianensis (Chen and Wu, 1976) from the Middle Miocene of Cixian County, Hebei Province, China, to the genus.[2] The species is known from a single partial skull and juvenile mandible, notably small in size.[4]
Palaeoecology
[edit]Analysis of δ18O and δ13C values suggests that L. sansaniense was an inhabitant of relatively open environments.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Antoine, P. O.; Bulot, C.; Ginsburg, L. O. (2000). "Les rhinocérotidés (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) de l'Orléanien des bassins de la Garonne et de la Loire (France) : Intérêt biostratigraphique". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIA. 330 (8): 571. Bibcode:2000CRASE.330..571A. doi:10.1016/S1251-8050(00)00174-9.
- ^ a b Deng, T.; Li, S., 2023. Restudy of Rhinocerotini fossils from the Miocene Jiulongkou fauna of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 61: 198-211 - DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.230630
- ^ Henke, Winfried; Tattersall, Ian (2007). Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and Approaches Vol II:Primate Evolution and Human Origins Vol III:Phylogeny of Hominids. Springer. p. 981.
- ^ Tong, Hao-wen (2012). "Evolution of the non-Coelodonta dicerorhine lineage in China". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11 (8): 555–562. Bibcode:2012CRPal..11..555T. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.002.
- ^ Aiglstorfer, Manuela; Bocherens, Hervé; Böhme, Madelaine (18 February 2014). "Large mammal ecology in the late Middle Miocene Gratkorn locality (Austria)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 94 (1): 189–213. doi:10.1007/s12549-013-0145-5. ISSN 1867-1594. Retrieved 27 November 2024 – via Springer Nature Link.
