Mesopithecus delsoni Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Koufos, 1990

Koufos, George D., 2009, The Neogene cercopithecids (Mammalia, Primates) of Greece, Geodiversitas 31 (4), pp. 817-850 : 839

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2009n4a817

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5466107

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scientific name

Mesopithecus delsoni Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Koufos, 1990
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Mesopithecus delsoni Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Koufos, 1990

HOLOTYPE. — Mandible of male adult individual with both tooth rows, RZO-159. It is housed in the Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Thessaloniki.

LOCALITY. — Ravin des Zouaves-5 ( RZO), Axios Valley, Macedonia, Greece.

AGE. — Early Turolian, MN 11 (late Miocene); estimated magnetostratigraphic age ~8.2 Ma.

DIAGNOSIS. — Large size; deep mandibular corpus; flattened anterior symphysis; strong symphyseal constriction; slightly inclined alveolar plane; large fossa genioglossa; thick inferior transverse torus; large honing facet in the p3; well-developed and bicuspid talonid in the m3.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Primates

Family

Cercopithecidae

Genus

Mesopithecus

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