Taxonomic revision of the holotype of <i>Proboselaphus watasei</i> Matsumoto, 1915 (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from Chuanyu area, China

NISHIOKA Yuichiro, KOHNO Naoki, KUDO Yuichiro

doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.210322

2021 , Vol. 59 >Issue 3: 200 - 212

DOI: https://doi.org/10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.210322

Taxonomic revision of the holotype of Proboselaphus watasei Matsumoto, 1915 (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from Chuanyu area, China

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1 Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka Shizuoka 422-8017, Japan
2 Tsukuba Research Departments, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan
3 Gakushuin Women’s College Tokyo 162-8650, Japan

Received date: 2021-01-18

Online published: 2021-07-20

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A taxonomic revision of Proboselaphus watasei Matsumoto, 1915 (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of Chuanyu area, China demonstrates that this genus and species names are invalid. The holotype with a skull and mandibles was recently rediscovered in the fossil collection by Nobuo Naora, which is housed in the National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Proboselaphus watasei was described as a closely-related species to living nilgai, or Boselaphus tragocamelus, in South Asia, based on general characteristics of pecorans, such as small bony horn-cores and hypsodont cheek teeth. However, the cranial and dental morphologies re-examined in the present study clearly show that the holotype has cervid-specific characteristics: e.g., the fronto-parietal surface curving dorsally, the basioccipital with a triangular outline, and molars with isolated anterior and posterior lobes. The molars of the holotype are comparable to those of Cervus unicolor, in having strong accessary structures (or spurs, cingulums/cingulids, and styles/stylids), and are as large as those ofCervus cf. C. unicolor from the Pleistocene deposits in southern China. This taxonomic change suggests that any crown-boselaphins had not dispersed into East Asia since the Pleistocene.

Key words： China; Quaternary; mammal; Bovidae; Cervidae

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NISHIOKA Yuichiro, KOHNO Naoki, KUDO Yuichiro . Taxonomic revision of the holotype of Proboselaphus watasei Matsumoto, 1915 (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from Chuanyu area, China[J]. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 2021 , 59(3) : 200 -212 . DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.210322

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