From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #4088 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, May 3 2020 Volume 14 : Number 4088 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Pinecone Research ["**Pinecone Research**" <**PineconeResearch**@smartcle] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 03:55:57 -0400 From: "**Pinecone Research**" <**PineconeResearch**@smartclean.guru> Subject: Pinecone Research Pinecone Research http://smartclean.guru/842Je7L1Mthf-XW15vl9PU_lOIMTcugGGRrR-vXoYDwc_hWJ http://smartclean.guru/Yij5Pps-QXDsUlHtfBAWNh9r3f7pnkYDW9oUxBzvSYOnzTea nd 1971, the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions collected mammalian fossils from the Red Beds of Hermiin Tsav (also spelled "Khermeen Tsav") formation in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. About 100 specimens, recovered from four localitions, are housed at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Two-thirds of the collected specimens were multituberculates: an extinct order of mammals with rodent-like dentition, named for the numerous cusps (or tubercles) on their molars. In 1974, Polish palaeontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska named a new species of the Mongolian multituberculate genus Djadochtatherium as D. catopsaloides, with specimen ZPAL MgM?I/78 from the Polish collection as the holotype. The specific name refers to the animal's similarity to the North American species Catopsalis joyneri, which Kielan-Jaworowska thought was a possible descendant. The specimen, collected at the Hermiin Tsav I location, is an almost-complete skull of a juvenile with portions of the cranium damaged. Kielan-Jaworowska also assigned other specimens to the species: a damaged skull missing lower jaws (ZPAL MgM?I/79, an adult), a skull with partial lower jaws (ZPAL MgM?I/80), and a molar with a fragment of jaw (ZPAL MgM?I/159 from the Barun Goyot Formation of Khulsan, the only specimen not from Hermiin Tsav). Collection of Catopsbaatar skull bones Three skulls with jaws (A and B were collected in 1975, C in 1999), showing differences in size related to their individual ages. Kielan-Jaworowska and American palaeontologist Robert E. Sloan considered the genus Djadochtatherium a junior synonym of Catopsalis, and created the new combination C. catopsaloides in 1979. American palaeontologists Nancy B. Simmons and Miao Desui conducted a 1986 cladistic analysis which indicated that Catopsalis was a paraphyletic taxon (an unnatural grouping of species), and C. catopsaloides required its own generic name. Kielan-Jaworowska followed Simmons and Miao's suggestion, moving C. catopsaloides to its own monotypic genus (Catopsbaatar) in 1994. Catops is derived from the Greek word katoptos ("visible" or "evident"); baatar is Mongolian for "hero", and the name refers to Catopsbaatar's similarity to the genus Catopsalis (as is the case for the specific name). The name Catopsalis itself consists of the Greek words for "visible" and "cutting shears" (psalis). Later in 1994, Kielan-Jaworowska and the Russian palaeontologist Petr P. Gambaryan mentioned caudal (tail) vertebrae which may have belonged to Catopsbaatar; this attribution is uncertain, since they may instead belong to the related Tombaatar (named in 1997). A fourth skull (PIN 4537/4, a juvenile), discovered during the 1975 Soviet?Mongolian Expedition, was menti ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #4088 **********************************************