A new insectivore from the Oligocene, Ulan Gochu horizon, of Mongolia

Title Variants

Alternative: New insectivore from Mongolia

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 505
Series: Publications of the Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, contribution no. 111

By

Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984
Central Asiatic Expeditions 1921-1930

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York City, The American Museum of Natural History, [1931]

Notes

Title from caption.

"Nov. 25, 1931."

"Anagale gobiensis, new genus and species, is described on the basis of remarkably well preserved skull and jaws and much of the skeleton. 2. It is shown to be closely related to the Tupaiidae but referable to an extinct and non-ancestral family Anagalidae. 3. It is not closely related to any previously knwon fossil insectivores, none of which appears to be certainly referable to the Tupaioidea. 4. It is not intermediate between the Tupaiidae and Erinaceidae, being definitely allied with the former, but tends in some degree to strengthen the evidence of their remote common origin. 5. It tends more definitely to link the Tupaioidea and the Lemuroidea. 6. But it proves that the Tupaioidea have been distant from all other groups of mammals from a long time antecendent to the basal Oligocene"--P. 21.

Subjects

56.9,33A(1181:51.7) , Anagale gobiensis , Anagalidae , China , Inner Mongolia , Insectivores (Mammals), Fossil , Mammals, Fossil , Oligocene , Paleontology

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.505, 1931

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 43761606