A NEW SPECIES OF PLIOCENE PROLAGUS (LAGOMORPHA: OCHOTONIDAE) FROM POLAND IS THE NORTHERNMOST RECORD OF THE GENUS.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Fostowicz-Frelik, Łucja
- Source
- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Mar2010, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p609-612. 4p. 1 Diagram, 1 Graph.
- Subject
- *OLIGOCENE paleopedology
*PLIOCENE stratigraphic geology
*MANDIBLE
*PIKAS
*OCHOTONIDAE
- Language
- ISSN
- 0272-4634
The article reports on the northernmost record of Prolagus, a speciose group of large ochtonids which originated in the late Oligocene era, which were found from the Pliocene deposits of the Raciszyn 1 locality in Poland. A preliminary faunal analysis of the fossil was made to identify the etymology and holotype of its mandible, particularly the anterior mental foramen and ventral margin of the mandible body. Systematic paleontology revealed that the new species of Pliocene Prolagus is identical with the late Miocene genus of the species and proposes to synonimize these two species from a morphological perspective.