Listriodon skull from the late middle Miocene of Nebisuyu (Çanakkale – MN 8) Turkey

Stránky 252-269
DOI 10.37520/fi.2020.021
Klíčová slova Listriodontinae, biogeography, behaviour, sexual selection, ossicone
Typ článku Recenzovaný článek
Citace PICKFORD, Martin, KAYA, Tanju a MAYDA, Serdar. Listriodon skull from the late middle Miocene of Nebisuyu (Çanakkale – MN 8) Turkey. Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis. Praha: Národní muzeum, 2020, 76(2), 252-269. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2020.021. ISSN 2533-4050 (tisk), 2533-4069 (online). Dostupné také z: https://publikace.nm.cz/periodicke-publikace/fiamnpsbhn/76-2/listriodon-skull-from-the-late-middle-miocene-of-nebisuyu-anakkale-mn-8-turkey
Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis | 2020/76/2

The late middle Miocene (MN 8) sediments at Nebisuyu, in the southwestern extremity of the Gelibolu Peninsula, Turkey, yielded remains of a large individual of Listriodon splendens: a skull lacking the premaxillae but containing both cheek tooth rows, and a detached left maxilla fragment containing a canine. The material evidently represents a male individual on the basis of the large dimensions of the canine, an inference borne out by the presence of a horn-like protuberance on the thickened frontal bones. The dentition is typical of the large “subspecies” Listriodon splendens major Roman, 1907. The presence of an ossicone suggests that head-to-head combat was an aspect of the behaviour of Listriodon, just as it is in several extant suid taxa. The Nebisuyu discovery extends the geographic distribution of the subspecies well to the east of its previously known range.

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