CERVIDAE Gray, 1821

Geraads, Denis, Spassov, Nikolaï, Hristova, Latinka, Markov, Georgi N. & Tzankov, Tzanko, 2011, Upper Miocene mammals from Strumyani, South-Western Bulgaria, Geodiversitas 33 (3), pp. 451-484 : 470

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2011n3a3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5466075

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scientific name

CERVIDAE Gray, 1821
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Family CERVIDAE Gray, 1821 View in CoL

Gen. et sp. indet.

A right mandible, FM-2100 ( Fig. 3J View FIG ), and its left counterpart, FM-2101, are the only cervid remains from the Miocene of Strumyani (SW Bulgaria). The teeth are in medium wear, and well preserved. The premolars are long relative to the molars, especially p2 that is almost as long as p3 and p4. The parastylid is distinct from the paraconid on p3 and p4. The p3 has a conical metaconid, but on p4 this cuspid produces distal and mesial flanges, the latter closing the central valley by contacting the paraconid. In contrast to most other Upper Miocene cervids, the labial groove of p4 is shallow. The molars have no Palaeomeryx -fold, and the lingual wall of the m3 hypoconulid is oblique in occlusal view. Measurements are: L p2-p4 = 28.3; L m1-m3 = 42.9.

Without antler, identification of a cervid is highly speculative, and we prefer to refrain from naming the Strumyani one, especially as there are a number of different species (and perhaps many more different names) in the late Miocene. Furthermore, this cervid displays some remarkable features (large p2, p4 much more molarized than p3) unmatched in other localities, and its teeth have no special resemblance to any of them. Unidentified cervid remains from the Turolian of South-Western Bulgaria are known also from the localities of Hadjidimovo and Ploski-Bairamitsa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Artiodactyla

Family

Cervidae

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