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Two New Oligocene Desmostylians Anci a Discussion *^ of Tethytherian Systematics Two New Oligocene Desmostylians anci a Discussion _ *^ of Tethytherian Systematics DARYL P. DOMNING, CLAYTON E. RAY, and MALCOLM C. McKENNA SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOBIOLOGY . •<iw««;».^, •*%>>... ^ ^Jik. SERIES PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Emphasis upon publication as a means of "diffusing knowledge" was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry outlined a program that included the following statement: "It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge.'" This theme of basic research has been adhered to through the years by thousands of titles issued in sehes publications under the Smithsonian imprint, commencing with Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge in 1848 and continuing with the following active series: Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology Smithsonian Contributions to Astrophysics Smithsonian Contributions to Botany Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences Smithsonian Contributions to the (Marine Sciences Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology Smithsonian Folklife Studies Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology In these series, the Institution publishes small papers and full-scale monographs that report the research and collections of its various museums and bureaux or of professional colleagues in the world of science and scholarship. The publications are disthbuted by mailing lists to libraries, universities, and similar institutions throughout the world. Papers or monographs submitted for series publication are received by the Smithsonian Institution Press, subject to its own review for format and style, only through departments of the various Smithsonian museums or bureaux, where the manuscnpts are given substantive review. Press requirements for manuscript and art preparation are outlined on the inside back cover. Rotjert McC Adams Secretary Smithsonian Institution SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOBIOLOGY • NUMBER 59 Two New Oligocene Desmostylians and a Discussion of Tethytherian Systematics Daryl P. Domning, Clayton E. Ray, and Malcolm C. McKenna SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS City of Washington 1986 ABSTRACT Domning, Daryl P., Clayton E. Ray, and Malcolm C. McKenna. Two New Oligocene Desmostylians and a Discussion of Tethytherian Systematics. Smith­ sonian Contributions to Paleobiology, number 59, 56 pages, 23 figures, 1986.— A new genus, comprising two new species of desmostylians, is de­ scribed from marine Oligocene deposits of the Pacific Northwest. Behemotops proteus, new genus, new species, is based on an immature mandibular ramus and apparently associated skeletal fragments from the middle or (more likely) upper Oligocene lower part of the Pysht Formation of Clallam County, Washington. A related new species, Behemotops emlongi, is founded on a mandibular ramus of an old individual and a mandibular fragment with canine tusk from the uppermost Oligocene (early Arikareean equivalent) Yaquina Formation of Lincoln County, Oregon. The two new species are the most primitive known desmostylians and compare favorably with the primitive Eocene proboscideans Anthracobune and Moeritherium, and to the still more primitive tethythere Minchenella from the Paleocene of China. For many years the Desmostylia were widely regarded as members of the mammalian order Sirenia before being accepted as a taxon coordinate with the Sirenia and Proboscidea (Reinhart, 1953). On the basis of cladistic analysis we go a step further and regard the Desmostylia as more closely related to Proboscidea than to Sirenia because the Desmostylia and Proboscidea are interpreted herein to share a more recent common ancestor than either order does with the Sirenia. This analysis also suggests that the common ancestor of the Proboscidea and Desmostylia (but not the Sirenia) had suppressed P5 and the original last molar. These characters may be conver­ gent with some other mammals. The Superorder Tokotheria McKenna, 1975, was originally thought to be characterized by loss of both P5 and M3. However, because early sirenians do not show these losses, they may have occurred independently in the common ancestor of proboscideans and des­ mostylians and in various other tokotheres. The late Paleocene genus Minchenella Zhang, 1980, from China, is a suitable candidate to be the common ancestor of both the Desmostylia and the Proboscidea. It possesses a small entoconid II on M:<. The Eocene genus Lammidhania Gingerich, 1977, from Pakistan, and the late Paleocene and/ or early Eocene Chinese and Mongolian phenacolophids had not acquired an entoconid II on M^ but are otherwise similar to Minchenella and the anthra- cobunids. The Asiatic occurrence of phenacolophids, Lammidhania, Min­ chenella, and anthracobunids suggests an Asian origin for the Proboscidea and is in accord with the exclusively Pacific distribution of the Desmostylia. We believe that desmostylians were amphibious herbivores that fed on marine algae and angiosperms, and that at least the earlier taxa depended to a large extent on plants exposed in the intertidal zone. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE i.s handstamped in a limited number of initial copies and is recorded in the Institution's annual report, Smithsonian Year. SERIES COVER DESIGN: The trilobite Phacops rana Green. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Domning, Daryl P. Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics. (Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology ; no. 59) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs, no.: SI 1.30:59 1. Behemotops proteus. 2. Beheniotopsemlongi. 3. Desmostylia. 4. Proboscidea, Fossil. 5. Paleontology—Oligocene. 6. Paleontology—Washington(State)—Clallam County. 7. Pa­ leontology—Oregon—Lincoln County. 1. Ray, Clayton Edward. II. McKenna Malcolm C. 111. Title. IV. Series. QE701.S56no. 59 [QE882.D45J 560 s [569'.6] 85-600322 Contents Page Introduction 1 Acknowledgments 4 Abbreviations 5 Class MAMMALIA Linnaeus, 1758 5 Order DESMOSTYLIA Reinhart, 1953 5 Family Uncertain 5 Behemotops, new genus 6 Behemotops proteus, new species 6 Behemotops emlongi, new species 23 Relationship between Behemotops proteus and B. emlongi 31 History of Desmostylian Systematics 33 Characters Used in Phylogenetic Analysis 37 Comparisons with Early Proboscidea and Minchenella 38 Moeritherium 38 Anthracobune 43 Minchenella 44 Implications for Eutherian Dental Homologies 45 Status of the Tethytheria 46 Desmostylian Lifestyle 47 Conclusions 48 Literature Cited 49 ill Two New Oligocene Desmostylians and a Discussion of Tethytherian Systematics Daryl P. Domning, Clayton E. Ray, and Malcolm C. McKenna Introduction tion of these fossils was made by Barnes et al. (1985). Douglas Emlong's Promethean prowess in dis­ The three specimens to be described herein covery of unprecedented vertebrate fossils, alike are from marine Oligocene deposits ofthe Pacific in beds where many, few, or no collectors pre­ Northwest (Figures 1-3). The first to be found, ceded him, is well known to specialists having from the Yaquina Formation of coastal Oregon, personal knowledge of his activities (Ray, 1977). consists of a massive tusk with a bit of poorly Only a handful of his specimens have thus far preserved bone at the anterior end of the man­ been described (Coombs, 1979; Emlong, 1966; dible (USNM 186889; Figures 16 and 18). At Munthe and Coombs, 1979; S.L. Olson, 1980, the time of its discovery in 1969 it was regarded 1981; Olson and Hasegawa, 1979), but many are by Emlong (field list and pers. comm. to Ray) as under study. Tragically, the flow from the possibly representing a land mammal but more wellspring of these riches ended abruptly on 8 likely a "new and very aberrant desmostylian." June 1980 with Emlong's death (Ray, 1980), but The second specimen to be found, discovered in his already towering reputation as a fossil finder 1976 in the Pysht Formation on the Olympic will be progressively and justifiably widened with Peninsula in Washington, is an immature half every added publication of the results of studies mandible with apparently associated postcranial in progress on the "Emlong Collection." The fragments (USNM 244035; Figures 4-11, 12A- purpose ofthe present communication is to make D, 14A,c, 15A,B,E,F). It was thought by Emlong known several of his more remarkable and pro­ to be a desmostylian or possibly a land mammal, vocative discoveries: putative desmostylians, although he also believed that the one molar much more primitive than any previously known exposed in the field resembled those of sirenians and forging hitherto "missing links" (E.C. Olson, (field list; pers. comm. to Ray, 1976). The third 1981) with primitive proboscideans. Brief men- specimen found by Emlong, a half mandible of an old animal with only Ms preserved (USNM Daryl P. Domning, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, 244033; Figures 12F, 16, and 17), collected in Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059. Clayton E. Ray, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural His­ 1977 from the Yaquina Formation of Oregon, tory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560. Malcolm was described in Emlong's field list as a desmos­ C. McKenna, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Amer­ ican Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. 10024. tylian or a land mammal and as elephant-like. In 1 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOBIO OGY
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