How to translate text using browser tools
1 December 2011 The Entelodontid Artiodactyl Fauna from the Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia with Comments on Brachyhyops and the Khoer Dzan Locality
Takehisa Tsubamoto, Mototaka Saneyoshi, Mahito Watabe, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Buurei Mainbayar
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

We review the entelodontid artiodactyl fauna of the upper Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation in southeastern Mongolia. Also, we describe new specimens of Brachyhyops trofimovi from the Khoer Dzan locality and review the characteristics and Asian distribution of Brachyhyops. The revised entelodontid fauna of the formation consists of three species: Entelodon gobiensis (from the Khoer Dzan and Ergilin Dzo localities), Brachyhyops trofimovi (from the Khoer Dzan locality), and Brachyhyops? sp. (from the Ergilin Dzo locality). The discovery of p4 and M2 of B. trofimovi demonstrates the definitive diagnostic characteristics of this species within the genus: p4 is buccolingually wide and is triangular in occlusal view; it has a well developed and high cusp (= hypoconid?), which is fused to the posterior part of the protoconid; and M2 has a better-developed pericone. In Asia, Brachyhyops is recorded only in the southern part during the middle Eocene and only in the northern part during the late Eocene, implying that the genus originated in the southern part of Asia and subsequently migrated northward, giving rise to northern Asian and North American Brachyhyops.

© by the Palaeontological Society of Japan
Takehisa Tsubamoto, Mototaka Saneyoshi, Mahito Watabe, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, and Buurei Mainbayar "The Entelodontid Artiodactyl Fauna from the Eocene Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia with Comments on Brachyhyops and the Khoer Dzan Locality," Paleontological Research 15(4), 258-268, (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.2517/1342-8144-15.4.258
Received: 16 January 2011; Accepted: 1 July 2011; Published: 1 December 2011
KEYWORDS
Brachyhyops
Entelodon
Entelodontidae
Eoentelodon
Ergilin Dzo Formation
Mongolia
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top