Quaternary Mammal Fossils from Borneo: Stegodon and Hippopotamus.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Quaternary Mammal Fossils from Borneo: Stegodon and Hippopotamus. |
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Author :
Earl of Cranbrook, A.P. Currant and G.W. Davison |
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Abstract:
In August, 1999, Cranbrook and Davison bought two intriguing fossils at an antiquarian and curio shop in Milan Bazaar, Kuching. The specimens were not individually displayed, but simply lay in a ceramic bowl along with a miscellany of artifacts and other natural objects, including fossil bone shafts and pieces of fossil antler- which we did not buy (Plate VII). As to provenance, the shopkeeper was able to say only that these objectscame from Indonesian Borneo. One is identified as a partial 3rd lower molar of a stegodont, at the evolutionary level of Stegodon elephantoides (Clift) 1828 (see Saegusa, 1996). Only three previous proboscidean fossils are known from the island, and this is the first record of the genus. The other is a complex fossil, the main part consisting of a fragment of the upper jaw of a juvenile hippopotamus, containing the distal half of the first permanent molar and the mesial half of the second, the first just emergent from the gum in life, the second unerupted. This is no previous record of a hippopotamus from Borneo.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Earl of Cranbrook et al. (2000). Quaternary Mammal Fossils from Borneo: Stegodon and Hippopotamus. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LV (76): 215-233 |
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