Plesiosminthus myarion Schaub, 1930

Freudenthal, Matthijs & Martín-Suárez, Elvira, 2017, A revision of European Plesiosminthus (Rodentia, Dipodidae), and new material from the upper Oligocene of Teruel (Spain), Palaeontologia Electronica 9 (1), pp. 1-25 : 13

Plesiosminthus myarion Schaub, 1930

Type locality. Chavroches, MN2, France.

Syntypes. Two maxillas and two mandibles figured by Schaub (1930, figures 5-9).

Material and measurements. Appendix 1.

Diagnosis. Adapted from Schaub (1930). Lamella of the canalis nervi infraorbitalis reaching the anterior border of the foramen foramen infraorbitale; anterior end of the upper toothrow farther away from the jugal arch than in Plesiosminthus schaubi ;

P4 smaller, with thinner root and clearly set-off crown; M3 and m3 with reduced but complete posterior lobe; M1 narrow, with new (posterior) protolophule; M2 almost as large as M1, with double protolophule, M3 small, with old (anterior) protolophule; anteroconid of m1 connected to the protoconid; ectolophid well developed: protoconid hind arm frequent in m2, rare in m3.