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ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
卷 144, 期 3, 页码 363-377出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00174.x
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Batallones; Carnivora; Felinae; functional anatomy; Mammalia; Miocene; pantherine; Turolian; Vallesian
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The skull and cervical anatomy of the sabre-toothed felid Paramachairodus ogygia (Kaup, 1832) is described in this paper, with special attention paid to its functional morphology. Because of the scarcity of fossil remains, the anatomy of this felid has been very poorly known. However, the recently discovered Miocene carnivore trap of Batallones-1, near Madrid, Spain, has yielded almost complete skeletons of this animal, which is now one of the best known machairodontines. Consequently, the machairodont adaptations of this primitive sabre-toothed felid can be assessed for the first time. Some characters, such as the morphology of the mastoid area, reveal an intermediate state between that of felines and machairodontines, while others, such as the flattened upper canines and verticalized mandibular symphysis, show clear machairodont affinities. (C) 2005 The Linnean Society of London.
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