Title
Osteology of the Middle Eocene ceratomorph Hyrachyus modestus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)
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Alternative:
Osteology of ceratomorph Hyrachyus modestus
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 413
By
Bai, Bin, 1981-
, author
Meng, Jin (Paleontologist)
, author
Wang, Yuanqing (Paleontologist)
, author
Wang, Hai-bing
, author
Holbrook, Luke.
, author
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, [2017]
Notes
"Issued June 9, 2017."
Specimens collected from the Bridger Basin of Wyoming. (Materials and methods, page 5)
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The middle Eocene ceratomorph Hyrachyus has been considered a pivotal genus in ceratomorph evolution, either as a transitional form from tapiroids to rhinocerotoids, giving rise to all later rhinocerotoids, or else as the sister taxon to other rhinocerotoids. Thus, Hyrachyus has been commonly chosen as an outgroup in phylogenetic analyses of rhinocerotoids. However, little has been published on the osteology of Hyrachyus, even though well-preserved craniodental and postcranial specimens of this taxon have been in collections for decades. Here, we describe and illustrate the cranial and postcranial osteology of Hyrachyus modestus, based mainly on the exceptionally preserved specimens housed at the American Museum of Natural History, specifically AMNH FM 12664. Our bone-by-bone description provides detailed information on the osteological morphology of Hyrachyus, which should be useful for phylogenetic analyses of both rhinocerotoids and perissodactyls in general, because it provides one of the more complete and best-preserved examples of the skeleton of an earlier Eocene perissodactyl....
Subjects
American Museum of Natural History
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Bones
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Catalogs
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Ceratomorpha
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Division of Paleontology
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Eocene
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Evolution
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Hyrachyus modestus
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Mammals, Fossil
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Paleontology
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Perissodactyla
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Perissodactyla, Fossil
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Phylogeny
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Rhinocerotoidea
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Wyoming
Call Number
QH1 .A4 no.413 2017
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090-413.1.1
OCLC:
989676013
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