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The record of Deinotheriidae from the Miocene of the Swiss Jura Mountains (Jura Canton, Switzerland)

Fanny Gagliardi, View ORCID ProfileOlivier Maridet, Damien Becker
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.10.244061
Fanny Gagliardi
1Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel – Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Olivier Maridet
2Jurassica Museum – Porrentruy, Switzerland
3Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg – Fribourg, Switzerland
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  • For correspondence: olivier.maridet@jurassica.ch damien.becker@jurassica.ch
Damien Becker
2Jurassica Museum – Porrentruy, Switzerland
3Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg – Fribourg, Switzerland
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Abstract

The Miocene sands of the Swiss Jura Mountains, long exploited in quarries for the construction industry, have yielded abundant fossil remains of large mammals. Among Deinotheriidae (Proboscidea), two species, Prodeinotherium bavaricum and Deinotherium giganteum, had previously been identified in the Delémont valley, but never described. A third species, Deinotherium levius, from the locality of Charmoille in Ajoie, is reported herein for the first time in Switzerland. These occurrences are dated from the middle to the late Miocene, correlating to the European Mammal biozones MN5 to MN9. The study is completed by a discussion on the palaeobiogeography of deinotheres at the European scale.

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  • This manuscript was peer-reviewed by PCI-Paleo DOI:10.24072/pci.paleo.100008

  • Abbreviations

    APD
    anteroposterior diameter
    D
    deciduous upper premolar
    dex
    right
    H
    height
    i
    lower incisors
    L
    length
    m/M
    lower and upper molars
    MJSN
    Jurassica Museum (formerly Musée jurassien des Sciences naturelles)
    MN
    Mammal Neogene
    NMB
    Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
    NMBE
    Naturhistorisches Museum Bern
    p/P
    lower and upper premolars
    sin
    left
    TD
    transverse diameter
    W
    width.
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    Fanny Gagliardi, Olivier Maridet, Damien Becker
    bioRxiv 2020.08.10.244061; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.10.244061
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