Primates) of Patagonia from the Tournouër Collection at the Muséum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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Diffusion – Publications scientifiques Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CP 41 – 57 rue Cuvier F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Tél. : 33 (0)1 40 79 48 05 / Fax : 33 (0)1 40 79 38 40 [email protected] / http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 2018 ISSN (imprimé / print) : 1280-9659/ ISSN (électronique / electronic) : 1638-9395 Previously unknown fossil platyrrhines (Primates) of Patagonia from the Tournouër collection at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Nelson M. NOVO Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología (IPGP), CONICET-CENPAT, Boulevard Brown 2915, (9120) Puerto Madryn, Chubut (Argentina) and Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Sede Puerto Madryn, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia “San Juan Bosco”, Puerto Madryn, Chubut (Argentina) [email protected] Marcelo F. TEJEDOR Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología (IPGP), CONICET-CENPAT, Boulevard Brown 2915, (9120) Puerto Madryn, Chubut (Argentina) and Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, SE 40530 Göteborg (Sweden) and Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Sede Trelew, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia “San Juan Bosco”, Trelew, Chubut (Argentina) [email protected] Laureano R. GONZÁLEZ RUIZ Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónicas (CIEMEP), CONICET-UNPSJB, Roca 780, CP 9200, Esquel, Chubut (Argentina) and Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Sede Esquel, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia “San Juan Bosco”. Esquel, Chubut (Argentina) [email protected] Submitted on 21 March 2018 | accepted on 2 June 2018 | published on 8 November 2018 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:61939862-091E-44F6-8811-4A1C4709ACBB Novo N. M., Tejedor M. F. & González Ruiz L. R. 2018. — Previously unknown fossil platyrrhines (Primates) of Patago- nia from the Tournouër collection at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Geodiversitas 40 (22): 529-535. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a22. http://geodiversitas.com/40/22 ABSTRACT Three unpublished fossil primate specimens from Patagonia (Argentina) are reported here. They are part of the Tournouër collection housed at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, and correspond to a partial mandible collected in 1902, and one upper deciduous premolar and one upper permanent molar collected in 1899. The partial mandible comes from the early Miocene sedi- ments in the Coyle river area (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina), and is attributable to Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891. It adds to the several specimens assigned to Homunculus patagonicus that were collected since the times of the Ameghino brothers in the area, between the rivers Coyle and Gallegos. Two other dental specimens came from Colhue-Huapi (Chubut province, Argentina). KEY WORDS Both are here assigned to Mazzonicebus almendrae Kay, 2010, the only known fossil primate in the Fossil Platyrrhines, early Miocene levels of Gran Barranca, in the Colhue-Huapi area. This contribution provides new Patagonia, Argentina, morphological information concerning the mandible and dentition of Homunculus Ameghino, 1891, Tournouër collection. and the first evidence of the deciduous dentition of Mazzonicebus Kay, 2010. GEODIVERSITAS • 2018 • 40 (22) © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. www.geodiversitas.com 529 Novo N. M. et al. RÉSUMÉ Spécimens non publiés de primates fossiles de Patagonie (Argentine) de la collection Tournouër du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Trois spécimens non publiés de primates fossiles de Patagonie (Argentine) sont étudiés ici. Ils font partie de la collection Tournouër conservée au Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle à Paris, France, et correspondent à une mandibule partielle recueillie en 1902, une prémolaire supérieure caduque et une molaire permanente supérieure recueillies en 1899. La mandibule partielle provient des sédiments du Miocène inférieur dans la région de la rivière Coyle (Province de Santa Cruz, Argentine), et est attribuable à Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891. Par ailleurs, entre les rivières Coyle et Gallegos, plusieurs spécimens attribués à Homunculus patagonicus ont été collectés depuis l’époque des frères Ameghino. Les deux autres spécimens dentaires proviennent de Colhue- Huapi (Province de Chubut, Argentine), et sont ici assignés à Mazzonicebus almendrae Kay, 2010, MOTS CLÉS l’unique primate fossile connu dans les niveaux du Miocène inférieur de Gran Barranca, région Fossiles Platyrrines, de Colhue-Huapi. Cette contribution fournit de nouvelles informations morphologiques sur la Patagonie, Argentine, mandibule et la denti tion de Homunculus Ameghino, 1891, et est la première preuve de dentition collection Tournouër. lactéale de Mazzonicebus Kay, 2010. INTRODUCTION (Buffetaut 2013) but the primates, although identified at the collection, were never described or published. We found The platyrrhine primates, or New World Monkeys (NWM) only a brief comment in Gaudry (1906b: 26): “Il a inscrit are a diverse group of mammals currently distributed in the sous le nom d’Homomculus une petite bête dont la tête est Neotropical Region (Morrone 2006), but whose past popu- grande comme celle d’un Ouistiti (1). N’ayant dans nos lations expanded also into the Caribbean Greater Antilles collections que des pièces incomplètes d’Homomculidés, and as far south as Patagonia (see Tejedor & Novo 2017). je ne veux pas donner une opinion personnelle. Je peux The platyrrhine fossil record is relatively diverse, but scarce dire seulement que d’après les découvertes faites jusqu’à in comparison with other mammals occurring at the same présent, il n’y a pas eu en Patagonie de Singes anthropo- paleontological sites. A total of 33 extinct platyrrhine genera morphes”. have been described thus far from Central and South America, The three previously unreported fossil primates we describe as well as some Caribbean islands, and at least four extinct spe- here include a partial mandible collected in 1902, here cies of two living genera (Tejedor & Novo 2017). The oldest assigned to Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891, and records are from ?late Eocene of Santa Rosa, Peru (Bond et al. a deciduous upper premolar and one permanent upper 2015). But the richest locality based on the taxonomic diversity molar collected in 1899, here assigned to Mazzonicebus and number of primate specimens, are the middle Miocene La almendrae Kay, 2010. Both genera are monotypic taxa. Venta localities in Colombia, with 11 genera, followed by the These specimens provide new morphological information Miocene localities of Patagonia, with 8 genera (see Tejedor & of the mandible and dentition of Homunculus Ameghino, Novo 2017, and the recent discoveries by Marivaux et al. 2016). 1891, and the first evidence of the deciduous dentition of Here we report three previously unpublished specimens Mazzonicebus Kay, 2010. of fossil primates from Patagonia, Argentina, from the pale- ontological collection at the Muséum national d’Histoire ABBREVIATIONS naturelle (MNHN.F), Paris. These are part of the Tournouër MACN-A Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Colección Nacional collection. André Tournouër was a geologist and explorer born Ameghino, Buenos Aires, Argentina; in Paris in 1871. He moved to Mendoza Province, Argentina, MACN-PV SC Museo Argentino de