2022/01/01 by Wighart von Koenigswald, Jakub Březina, Ralf Werneburg +1 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.26879/1188
openalex publication_date 2022/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
A detailed description of a partial skeleton of "Mammut" borsoni from the late Pliocene (Early Villafranchian, MN 16/17) of Kaltensundheim in Thuringia (Germany) is provided, and concentrates on osteological comparisons with specimens of the European Mammutidae (Zygolophodon turicensis and "M". borsoni) and the North American Mammut americanum. Osteological similarities between "M". borsoni and M. americanum have to be regarded as parallelisms. The Kaltensundheim specimen is one of the youngest appearances of mammutids in Europe. The skeleton may represent a female, because it is distinctly smaller than male individuals from Milia in Greece of a similar ontogenetic age.