Asoriculus gibberodon ( Petényi, 1864 )

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

Asoriculus gibberodon ( Petényi, 1864)

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Material – 1 left mandible fragment with M 1 -M 3 (M 1: L = 1.54, W = 0.81; M 2: L = 1.34, W = 0.76; M 3: L = 1.06, W = 0.60) ; 1 left mandible fragment with M 2 (L = 1.32, W = 0.76) ; 1 right mandible fragment with M 2 (L = 1.32, W = 0.80) ; 1 left and 3 right edentulous mandible fragments; 1 left M 1 (LL = 1.40, BL = 1.36, AW = 1.52, PW = 1.60); 1 right I 1 (I 1: L = 3.04, H = 0.76); 1 left M 1 (L = 1.42, W = 0.76); 1 fragmentary left I 1; 1 fragmentary right M 2.

Description – Pigmentation is hardly-visible: only the very tips of some teeth have a light orange colour. I 1 is fissident. M 1 protocone and hypocone are separated by a wide valley, the metastyle protrudes. The anterior margin bends beside the protocone. The lower incisor is short and bicuspulate. M 1 -M 2 cingula are developed on both lingual and buccal sides, the buccal one is slightly undulate, particularly in M 1. The buccal re-entrant valley opens directly above the cingulum. The lingual cingulum in M 3 is weak but well-visible; the talonid is not reduced but basined. The anterior margin of the coronoid process is usually slightly concave. The internal temporal fossa is relatively small and narrow. The upper condylar facet is narrow, long and cylinder-shaped. The lower facet is strongly elongated lingually and pointing downwards. The interarticular area is notched lingually and hence quite narrow and elongate.