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| The eutherian mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of Cretaceous Eutheria. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 327) |
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| Title: | The eutherian mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of Cretaceous Eutheria. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 327) |
| Authors: | Wible, John R. Rougier, Guillermo W. Novacek, Michael J. Asher, Robert J. |
| Keywords: | Maelestes gobiensis. Cimolesta. Mongolia. Ukhaa Tolgod. Cretaceous. |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | New York : American Museum of Natural History. |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 327. |
| Abstract: | Maelestes gobiensis Wible et al., 2007, is the second new eutherian mammal to be named from the rich Mongolian late Cretaceous locality of Ukhaa Tolgod, Ukhaatherium nessovi Novacek et al., 1997, being the first. Maelestes is only the seventh late Cretaceous eutherian known from the skull and the upper and lower dentitions, and the fifth known from some postcranial elements. The type and only known specimen, PSS-MAE 607, is described and illustrated in detail. The type is amended to include: an incomplete skull, left dentary, atlas, axis, last cervical and first 11 thoracic vertebrae, 11 partial ribs, incomplete scapula, clavicle, humerus, and proximal radius and ulna. An astragalus on a separate block was referred to Maelestes by Wible et al. (2007), but it is too large to belong to this taxon and is removed from the isotype. Several corrections and updates are made to the phylogenetic analysis of Wible et al. (2007). The original analysis and the one in this report include 408 morpho... |
| Description: | 123 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. "Issued September 3, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-88). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6001 |
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