| 词条 | Sespia |
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| name = Sespia | image = Sespia_ultima_californica.JPG | image_caption = Sespia ultima and S. californica | fossil_range = Late Oligocene | taxon = Sespia | authority = Stock, 1930 | type_species = †Leptauchenia nitida | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =
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}}Sespia ("of Sespe Creek") is an extinct genus of oreodont, endemic to North America during the Whitneyan stage of the Oligocene-Late Oligocene epochs (30.8—24.8 mya) existing for approximately {{Mya|30.8-24.8|million years}}.[1] TaxonomySespia was named by Schultz and Falkenbach (1968) as a subgenus of Leptauchenia by Stock in 1930; transferred to Cyclopidius by Schlaikjer 1935, Thorpe 1937. Its type is Leptauchenia nitida. It was assigned to Merycoidodontidae by Schultz and Falkenbach (1968) and Lander (1998).[2]MorphologySespia was domestic-cat- to goat-sized and desert-dwelling. The genus was closely related to the larger Leptauchenia. A single specimen was examined by M. Mendoza for body mass and estimated to have a weight of 4.65 kg (10.2 lbs).[3] Fossil distributionFossils of the best known species, the cat-sized S. californica, have been found California, namely, in Chula Vista, and Carlsbad, and is known from literally thousands of specimens. The largest species, the goat-sized S. ultima, is known from late Oligocene deposits in Nebraska. S. ultima was once placed in a separate, monotypic genus, as Megasespia middleswarti. Other species were once placed within Leptauchenia. SpeciesS. californica, S. heterodon, S. nitida (syn. Leptauchenia minora, S. marianae), S. ultima (syn. Megasespia middleswarti). Sister generaLimnenetes (ancestral), Leptauchenia (syn. Brachymeryx, Cyclopidius, Hadroleptauchenia, Pithecistes, Pseudocyclopidius) References1. ^PaleoBiology Database: Sespia, basic info 2. ^C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139 3. ^M. Mendoza, C. M. Janis, and P. Palmqvist. 2006. Estimating the body mass of extinct ungulates: a study on the use of multiple regression. Journal of Zoology External links
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