. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 332 Gulo ^w/o-Scandanavia (n?? OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Table 1 ons of the teeth of Gulo gulo and Plesiogulo species. LATE TERTIARY MUSTELIDAE FROM Plesiogulo 'mayw'-Chinat n, monspessulanus-Eutope^ Plesiogulo monspessulanus-hzn&b^es M0042. L21570 P1 / b P2 / b 4,0- 4,6 5,2 L28394 Plesiogulo crassa-China (means)t 7,2 9,6- 11,2 11,0 * Data provided by E. Anderson (Denver, Colorado). t Kurten 1970. Gulo zulo (Table 1). They are positioned as in the living species, except that P* 1Tp"
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 332 Gulo ^w/o-Scandanavia (n?? OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Table 1 ons of the teeth of Gulo gulo and Plesiogulo species. LATE TERTIARY MUSTELIDAE FROM Plesiogulo 'mayw'-Chinat n, monspessulanus-Eutope^ Plesiogulo monspessulanus-hzn&b^es M0042. L21570 P1 / b P2 / b 4,0- 4,6 5,2 L28394 Plesiogulo crassa-China (means)t 7,2 9,6- 11,2 11,0 * Data provided by E. Anderson (Denver, Colorado). t Kurten 1970. Gulo zulo (Table 1). They are positioned as in the living species, except that P* 1Tp"ov lap which is unlike the fore-aft arrangement in the two available &Ggulo con! Live specimens and some illustrated examples ( Anderson 1977 fig 4 Novikov 1962, fig. 128; Kurten & Rausch 1959 figs 3-4). Morphologically the teeth are similar to those of G. S^n^^^ respects. The infraorbital foramen of L40042 is more posteriorly ituated than that of G. gulo. It opens above the apex of the P* paracone, whereas in the living species the opening is above the anterior end of P4. The features of the posterior parts of the skull of L40042 (Fig. 2)are essentially similar to their counterparts in G. gulo. The fossil skull is,ho«*j>, very large (Table 2), with processes and crests greatly exaggerated. The sagittal crest is particularly prominent, being about 20 mm high along that part which . preserved. This crest terminates posteriorly above the level ofhe occipit condyles, whereas in G. gulo it usually, or always, projects further bac£ y contrast, the paroccipital process of the fossil projects further back than tnai 'The less posteriorly protruding sagittal crest is one manifestation of the relatively shorter braincase of the fossil. The distance between the exte^ auditory meatus and most posterior part of the sagittal crest i ^^ 30 mm in L40042, whereas in two G. gulo specimens it is (SAM-ZM36095 <J) and 40 mm (SAM-ZM38641 ?). This difference is^a indicated by the
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