Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Meyer, 1832
Sicilian dwarf hippo[potamus]
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Sicily, Italy and Malta
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Von Meyer, H. (1832). Palaeologica zur Geschichte der Erde und ihrer Geschöpfe. Frankfurt. 11. 560pp.
Other references:
Bonfiglio, Laura. (1995). Taphonomy and depositional setting of Pleistocene mammal-bearing deposits from Acquedolci (North-Eastern Sicily). Geobios 18: 57-68. [automatic download]
Bouchez, R. et al. (1988?). Radiometric dating of Hippopotamus pentlandi from the Ghar Dalam cave, Malta. [privately circulated manuscript of paper presented at International Conference 'Early man in island environments' September 25 - October 2, 1988, Oliena, Sardinia, Italy]
Caloi, Lucia and Palombo, Maria Rita. (1982). Hippopotamus pentlandi Meyer di Capo Tindari (Messina). Geologica Romana 21: 395 (396?).
Caloi, Lucia and Palombo, Maria Rita. (1986). Some remarks about biometric characters of skulls of Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Meyer (Cannita Cave, Sicily) and pleistocene hippopotami of Western Europe / Osservazioni sui caratteri biometrici del cranio di Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Meyer della grotta della Cannita (Sicilia) e degli ippopotami pleistocenici dell'Europa Occidentale. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 1(2): 137-159.
Hunt, Christopher O. and Schembri, Patrick J. (1999). Quaternary environments and biogeography of the Maltese Islands, pp. 41-75. In: Mifsud, A. and Savona Ventura, C. (eds.). Facets of Maltese Prehistory. Malta: The Prehistoric Society of Malta, vii + 243 pp.
Ma, J. L. et al. (1988). ESR and Uranium series disequilibria dating of an Hippopotamus pentlandi from the Ghar Dalam cave (Malta). Abstracts of the International Conference 'Early man in the island environments' September 25-Octover 2, 1988, Oliena (Sardinia); pp. 54; Sassari, Sardinia: Industria Grafica Stampacolor.
Maempel, G. Z. (1993), Skeletal pathology and congenital variations in the Maltese Pleistocene hippopotamus. Journal of Zoology, 231: 157-162. [Abstract]
Mangano, Gabriella et al. (2020). New finds from San Teodoro Cave: an updating of the Middle Pleistocene fossil record from Acquedolci (north-eastern Sicily). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00430-7 [Abstract]
Marra, Antonella Cinzia. (2005). Pleistocene Hippopotamuses of Mediterranean islands: looking for ancestors. InALcoVER, J.A. & BOVER, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Symposium "Insular VertebrateEvolution: thePalaeontological Approach': Monografies de la Societatd'Història Natural de les Balears 12: 193-204.
Martino, Roberta and Pandolfi, Luca. (2020). Revision of the Quaternary hippopotamuses from Italy, pp. 80. In: Sobczyk A., Ratajczak-Skrzatek U., Kasprzak M., Kotowski A., Marciszak A., Stefaniak K. (eds.). Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2020 Conference, Wrocław, Poland. University of Wrocław & Polish Geological Society. 124 pp.
Martino, Roberta and Pandolfi, Luca. (2022). The Quaternary Hippopotamus records from Italy. Historical Biology 34(7): 1146-1156. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.1965138
Martino, Roberta, Sasso, C. Dal and Pandolfi, Luca. (2021). The dwarf Hippopotamus pentlandi von Meyer 1832 from 'Fessura Malatacca' (Palermo, Sicily), pp. 69-70. In: Ratajczak-Skrzatek U., Kovalchuk O., Stefaniak K. (eds.). Proceedings of INQUA SEQS 2021 Conference, Wrocław, Poland. University of Wrocław & Polish Geological Society. 119 pp.
Pandolfi, Luca et al. (2020). Investigating ecological and phylogenetic constraints in Hippopotamidae skull shape. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafi (Research in Paleontology and Stratigraphy) 126(1): 37-49.
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http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/8380/extinct-hippopotami