How old is the cheetah skull shape? The case of Acinonyx pardinensis (Mammalia,Felidae) |
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| Institution: | 1. Sorbonne universités - CR2P - MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris 6, CP 38, 8, rue Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France;2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;1. Institut de Paléoprimatologie, Paléontologie Humaine : Évolution et Paléoenvironnements (IPHEP), UMR-CNRS 7262, Bâtiment Sciences Naturelles, 6, rue M.-Brunet, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France;2. Fachbereich Geowissenschaften Forschungsbereich Paläobiologie, Biogeologie Universität Tübingen Hölderlinstr. 12, 72074 Tübingen, Germany;1. Center for Precolumbian Studies, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland;2. Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Science, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland;3. Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warsaw, Poland;4. Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, Wrocław 50-335, Poland;5. Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Pawińskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland;6. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Cracow, Poland;7. Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland;8. Department of Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland;1. AMIS Anthropologie moléculaire et imagerie de synthèse, UMR 5288 du CNRS, Université Paris Descartes, Faculté de chirurgie dentaire, 1 rue Maurice Arnoux, 92120 Montrouge, France;2. Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution, Université Montpellier 2, (CNRS, IRD), CC064, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France;3. Anthropological and palaeoenvironmental Department, Institute of Archaeology, 61 Phan Chu Trinh Street, Hoan Kiem district, Ha Noi, Viet Nam;4. ‘Traps’ MQ Luminescence Dating Facility, Dept Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia;5. Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7516, Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg, France;6. Radiogenic Isotope Facility, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia;7. ICPEES / LIVE / DYLBAS, Institut de Géologie, Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg, France;8. Lang Son museum, 2 Hung Vuong Street, Chi Lang district, Lang Son city, Viet Nam;9. Prehistoric Archaeology Department, Institute of Archaeology, 61 Phan Chu Trinh street, Hoan Kiem district, Ha Noi, Viet Nam;10. Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative, OMSI-UMS 2700 CNRS MNHN, Muséum national d''Histoire naturelle, CP26, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France;11. Musée de l’Homme, UMR 7206, 17 Place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France;12. Center for GeoGenetics, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark;1. Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK;2. Centre for GeoGenetics, København Universitet, The Natural History Museum, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark;1. Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle d’Aix en Provence, 6 Rue Espariat, 13100 Aix en Provence, France;2. Département de Paléontologie, Institut des Sciences et de l’Evolution (ISE-M), UMR-CNRS 5554, Université Montpellier 2, CC64, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France;3. Géosciences Montpellier, UMR 5243, Université Montpellier 2, CC60, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France;4. Departement of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;5. Service Géologique, Office National des Mines, 24 Rue 8601, 2035 La Charguia, Tunis BP, 215-1080 Tunis Cedex, Tunisia;1. Department of Earth Sciences, PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy;2. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 19 Ursula Franklin St., Toronto, ON M5S 2S2, Canada |
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| Abstract: | It is generally believed that the skull CCEC-161821 of Acinonyx pardinensis from Saint-Vallier, an Early Pleistocene French locality, is similar to that of the modern cheetah, in contrast to several other Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Old World felids with cheetah-like teeth, assigned either to Acinonyx Brookes, 1828, or to Sivapanthera Kretzoi, 1929. Morphological comparisons and morphometric analysis of the fossil and recent material show that the Acinonyx pardinensis from Saint-Vallier, although dentally similar to the modern cheetah, is not cheetah-like in its skull shape. All those Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene forms can also be included in Acinonyx, implying that the characteristic skull shape of the modern form is probably a recent acquisition. |
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| Keywords: | Carnivora Felidae Pleistocene Morphometry |
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