Abstract
La revisión sistemática de Cervivatus sugiere que deriva del principal clado de los cérvidos posteriores a los muntiacinos, e implica que Procervulinae, Dicrocerinae y la primeras formas de Munticiacinae serían holometacarpales, como también lo es Cervivatus, originario en los bosques de Moldavia (Europa del Este) durante el Vallesiense final (MN 10), a partir de un antecesor braquiodonto y holometacarpal, con astas con dos o tres candiles y pliegue paleomerícido, y que da lugar a C. novorossiae. Este se dispersó a Europa occidental durante el comienzo del Turoliense, y más al oeste a Francia durante el Rusciniense. Su dispersión en los bosques del norte de China se produjo también a comienzos del Turoliense, estando representado por C. shanxius. Existe una gran cantidad de ejemplares de C. shanxius con metápodos laterales completos, que debían ser útiles para equilibrar el cuerpo en las ramas de los árboles. Las áridas mesetas loésicas actuales fueron bosques húmedos durante el Mioceno final. C. shanxius emigró hacia el sur durante el Plio-Pleistoceno probablemente debido al ambiente más seco del norte de China, como consecuencia de la elevación de los Himalayas, dando lugar a C. ultimus y C. fenqii, que sobrevivieron en el sur de China hasta el Pleistoceno inicial (MNQ18).
Highlights
The first time I met Professor Léonard Ginsburg was in 1986 when I went to France for my doctoral degree in vertebrate palaeontology at the Université de Poitiers
My first research publication in France (Dong, 1996) was with his kind help when he was the editorin-chief of the Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, which has been renamed as Geodiversitas since 1997
The second Cervavitus in southern China, Cervavitus fenqii Han, 1987, was reported from the Early Pleistocene cave deposits at the Gigantopithecus Cave in Liucheng, Guangxi (Han, 1987). It is characterised by pedicles prolonged by a ridge on the frontals, antlers threetined, Palaeomeryx fold generally missing, and it differs from C. ultimus by its smaller antlers, shorter brow tine and main beam, and it differs from C. shanxius by its smaller antlers and shorter brow tine (Han, 1987)
Summary
The first time I met Professor Léonard Ginsburg was in 1986 when I went to France for my doctoral degree in vertebrate palaeontology at the Université de Poitiers. The second Cervavitus in southern China, Cervavitus fenqii Han, 1987, was reported from the Early Pleistocene cave deposits at the Gigantopithecus Cave in Liucheng, Guangxi (Han, 1987) It is characterised by pedicles prolonged by a ridge on the frontals, antlers threetined, Palaeomeryx fold generally missing, and it differs from C. ultimus by its smaller antlers, shorter brow tine and main beam, and it differs from C. shanxius by its smaller antlers and shorter brow tine (Han, 1987). For detailed research history on Cervavitus, please refer Petronio et al (2007) who gave a very good and comprehensive review on the Cervavitus from Europe and some of the Cervavitus in China
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