Ancylotherium pentelicum (Gaudry & Lartet, 1856)

Geraads, Denis, Spassov, Nikolaï, Hristova, Latinka, Markov, Georgi N. & Tzankov, Tzanko, 2011, Upper Miocene mammals from Strumyani, South-Western Bulgaria, Geodiversitas 33 (3), pp. 451-484 : 461

Ancylotherium pentelicum (Gaudry & Lartet, 1856)

FM-2027 from Str-1 is the medial half of a right talus (medial height = 71; medial depth = 78). The lip of the trochlea is very rounded; the navicular facet is strongly convex transversely and sharply narrows laterally. What is preserved of this talus does not significantly differ from other tali of Ancylotherium Gaudry, 1863 , a genus best known from the Balkano-Iranian province and rather common in most of our Upper Miocene localities of SW Bulgaria (including the recently surveyed localities of Gorna Sushitsa and Ploski), but which might in fact range from Spain to China (see e.g., Geraads et al. 2006a). Although mostly found in Turolian assemblages, it occurs earlier, and lingers as late as the Pleistocene in Africa; it is therefore of little biochronological use.