Petenyia hungarica Kormos, 1934

Pazonyi, Piroska, Mészáros, Lukács, Hír, János & Mta-Mtm-Elte, Zoltán Szentesi, 2016, The lowermost Pleistocene rodent and soricid (Mammalia) fauna from Beremend 14 locality (South Hungary) and its biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33, pp. 99-134 : 109

Petenyia hungarica Kormos, 1934

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Material – 1 left mandible fragment with M 2 -M 3 (M 2: L = 1.24, W = 0.84; M 3: L = 1.04, W = 0.60) ; 1 left mandible fragment with M 3 (L = 1.14, W = 0.64); 1 right mandible fragment with M 1 (L = 1.39, W = 0.80) ; 1 left M 1 (L = 1.36, W = 0.80) ; 1 left maxillary fragment with P 4 and broken M 1 (LL = 0.84, BL = 1.48, W = 1.40) ; 1 right maxillary fragment with M 1 -M 2 (M 1: LL = 1.40, BL = 1.44, AW = 1.41, PW = 1.49; M 2: LL = 1.24, BL = 1.16, AW = 1.49, PW = 1.36) ; 1 right M 1 fragment .

Description – The teeth have dark red (sometimes nearly black) pigmentation. P 4, M 1 and M 2 have nearly straight posterior margin. P 4 is triangular, its parastyle is well-developed and as a rule, connected to the paracone by a high parastylar crest. Hardly any posterior emargination is present on M 1 -M 2. Paracone and metacone are much better developed than the protocone, the hypocone is not developed. Protocone and hypocone are separated. In occlusal view the lower molars are relatively wide and short. The entoconid crest is high. The wide re-entrant valley opens low, directly above the broad buccal cingulum. M 3 has a well-developed buccal cingulum, its talonid is reduced to a single hypoconid. The tip of the coronoid process of the mandible is broad, slightly divergent with a strongly undulating outline. The posterior margin is straight. The coronoid spicule is very large and strongly pronounced; it divides the external temporal fossa into two almost equal parts. The internal temporal fossa is high and triangular; it extends to the tip of the coronoid.