Artistic reconstruction of the appearance of Prosantorhinus Heissig, 1974, the teleoceratine rhinoceros from the Middle Miocene of Somosaguas
We show the methodology used to perform the artistic palaeoreconstruction of the teleoceratine rhinoceros Prosantorhinus, which is found in the middle Miocene fossil site of Somosaguas-Norte (Pozuelo de Alarcón, middle Aragonian). Successive phases within this work involved (1) the interpretation of...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositório: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/34035 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34035 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | 569.722(460) (460)569.722 Comparative anatomy Iberian Peninsula Mammalia Paleoart Rhinocerotidae Anatomía comparada Península Ibérica Paleoarte Rhinocerotidae. Paleontología 2416 Paleontología |
| Resumo: | We show the methodology used to perform the artistic palaeoreconstruction of the teleoceratine rhinoceros Prosantorhinus, which is found in the middle Miocene fossil site of Somosaguas-Norte (Pozuelo de Alarcón, middle Aragonian). Successive phases within this work involved (1) the interpretation of the fossils in comparative anatomy terms; (2) the use of modern analogues, considering the systematic relationships among the extinct species and their extant relatives, which allows us to infer the condition of unpreserved attributes such as soft tissues; and (3) addition of palaeoecological information in order to establish the palaeoenvironmental framework of the species. Our fi nished work shows a plausible reconstruction of the inferred life appearance of Prosantorhinus. |
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