暹罗水獭属
暹罗水獭属 化石时期:中新世后期,
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科学分类 | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
纲: | 哺乳纲 Mammalia |
目: | 食肉目 Carnivora |
科: | 鼬科 Mustelidae |
亚科: | 水獭亚科 Lutrinae |
属: | †暹罗水獭属 Siamogale Ginsburg et al., 1983 |
模式种 | |
暹罗水獭 Siamogale thailandica Ginsburg, Ingavat et Tassy, 1983
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其他物种 | |
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暹罗水獭属(属名:Siamogale)又名泰国水獭,属于原始的水獭亚科成员,主要生存于中新世中期的塞拉瓦尔阶至末期的墨西拿阶(可能存活至上新世的赞克尔阶早期)。
本属目前已知有两个物种,分别是由法国古生物学家 Léonard Ginsburg 等人在 1983 年发表的暹罗水獭(S. thailandica),以及美国洛杉矶自然历史博物馆的古生物学家王晓鸣等人于 2017 年描述的似獾暹罗水獭(S. melilutra)。前者发现于泰国南邦府的湄莫盆地,而后者的化石则从中国云南省昭通市的水塘坝出土[1][2]。
下属物种
本属包括以下物种:
- Siamogale bounosa [3]
- 似獾暹罗水獭 Siamogale melilutra Wang, Grohé, Su, White, Ji, Kelley, Jablonski, Teng, You & Yang, 2017[4]
- Siamogale thailandica Ginsburg et al., 1983
参考文献
- ^ L. Ginsburg; R. Ingavat; P. Tassy. "Siamogale thailandica, nouveau Mustelidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) neogene du Sud-Est asiatique". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 1983, 25 (6): 953–956. ISSN 0037-9409. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.S7-XXV.6.953.
- ^ Wang, X.; Grohé, C.; Su, D. F.; White, S. C.; Ji, X.; Kelley, J.; Jablonski, N. G.; Deng, T.; You, Y.; Yang, X. "A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2018, 16 (1): 39–65. ISSN 1477-2019. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666.
- ^ Camille Grohé, Louis De Bonis, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Olivier Chavasseau, Mana Rugbumrung, Chotima Yamee, Kantapon Suraprasit, Corentin Gibert, Jérôme Surault, Cécile Blondel and Jean-Jacques Jaeger. 2020. The late Middle Miocene Mae Moh Basin of northern Thailand: the Richest Neogene Assemblage of Carnivora from Southeast Asia and A Paleobiogeographic Analysis of Miocene Asian Carnivorans. American Museum Novitates. 3952: 1–57. DOI: 10.1206/3952.1
- ^ Xiaoming Wang, Camille Grohé, Denise F. Su, Stuart C. White, Xueping Ji, Jay Kelley, Youshan You and Xin Yang. 2017. A New Otter of Giant Size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba Site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and A Total-Evidence Phylogeny of Lutrines. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1267666