Leptoscaptor, Ziegler, 2003

Ziegler, Reinhard, 2003, Moles (Talpidae) from the late Middle Miocene of South Germany, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (4), pp. 617-648 : 620

Genus Leptoscaptor nov.

Type species: Leptoscaptor bavaricum gen. et sp. nov.

Etymology: From Greek leptos, slender, asthenic; skaptein, to dig, to plug.ComparedtootherScalopini, Leptoscaptor hasaslenderhumerus. Included species: Leptoscaptor robustior gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis.—Medium−sized scalopine mole. Tentative dental formula I?1/2, C1/1, P4/3, M 3/3. i2>i1>c. Lower canine incisor−shaped, single−rooted. i2 more procumbent than c. Lower premolars double−rooted, increasing in size posteriorly. m1<m2>m3. Oblique cristid joins metacristid in m2 and m3, no metastylid developed. Talonid lingually open in m1. Upper incisor enlarged. Upper canine single− or double−rooted. P1–P3 double−rooted, P4 with tiny parastyle, protocone in most P4 a small but distinct cusp. Mesostyles on upper molars divided, no lingual conules on M1 and M3, on M2 weakly developed para− and metaconules. Humerus more or less slender, head elliptical, directed parallel to shaft, brachialis fossa large but shallow, deltoid process short, teres tubercle long, crest−shaped, pectoral tubercle in midshaft position, scalopine ridge prominent, running diagonally from the head to the medial side of the lesser tuberosity, the trochlea is wide, separated by a narrow notch from the fossa for the m. flexor digitorum profundus ligament, olecranon fossa large.