Phosphatherium: now a big Paleocene hyrax/liptotern
Traditionally
elephants, hyraxes and manatees are relatives in textbook mammal family trees. See wiki/Tethytheria.
By contrast
a few weeks ago elephants and manatees went their separate ways taking closely related taxa with them. These phylogenetic moves were first made in the large reptile tree (LRT, 2328 taxa). Phosphatherium (Fig 1) went with manatees then. Today it returns to hyraxes and liptoterns = long-legged hyraxes.
Figure 1. Procavia, Diadiaphorus and Phosphatherium are hyraxes or related to hyraxes in the LRT, shown here to scale.
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Figure 1. Procavia, Diadiaphorus and Phosphatherium are hyraxes or related to hyraxes in the LRT, shown here to scale. Note the expansion of the jugal (cyan) at mid-length. Colors added here.
Phosphatherium escuillei
(Gheerbrant, Sudre and Cappetta 1996; Late Paleocene; 10cm skull length) nests with the hyrax, Procavia. The skull data is a bit scrappy. One skull is largely plaster.
References
Gheerbrant E, Sudre J and Cappetta H 1996. A Palaeocene proboscidean from Morocco. Nature. 383 (6595): 68–71.
Gheerbrant E 2009. Paleocene emergence of elephant relatives and the rapid radiation of African ungulates. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 106(26): 10717–10721.
Gheerbrant E et al. 2005. Nouvelles données sur Phosphatherium escuilliei (Mammalia, Proboscidea) de l’Éocène inférieur du Maroc, apports à la phylogénie des Proboscidea et des ongulés lophodontes. Geodiversitas 27 (2), 2005, pp. 239-333.
wiki/Procavia
wiki/Diadiaphorus
wiki/Litolophus
wiki/Thoatherium
wiki/Phosphatherium
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