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The endocranial cast and encephalization quotient of Ptilodus (Multituberculata, Mammalia)
Published online: 11/02/1993
Keywords:
encephaIization quotient; endocranial cast; Montana; Multituberculata; olfactory bulbs; Paleocene; Ptilodus
https://doi.org/10.18563/pv.22.2-3.99-112
References: 49
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David W. Krause and Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, 1993. The endocranial cast and encephalization quotient of Ptilodus (Multituberculata, Mammalia). PalaeoVertebrata 22 (2-3): 99-112. doi: 10.18563/pv.22.2-3.99-112
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Abstract
Simpson (1937a) reconstructed the brain of the Paleocene multituberculate Ptilodus as having the olfactory bulbs widest anteriorly, an unusual condition among mammals. Slight preparation and reexamination of the endocast specimens of Ptilodus reveals that the olfactory bulbs in fact taper anteriorly, as in the recently-described endocranial casts of three multituberculate species from the Late Cretaceous of Asia, and as in those of other mammals. The brain of Ptilodus was therefore essentially of the same general pattem as in other multituberculates. Ptilodus differs, however, in having the vermis more deeply inserted between the cerebral hemispheres. Other details concerning the endocast morphology of Ptilodus are clarified.
The encephalization quotient (EQ) of Ptilodus is recalculated from revised estimates of both endocranial volume and body mass to fall somewhere within a broad range of values; from 0.41 to 0.62 if the olfactory bulbs are included and from 0.37 to 0.55 if they are not. In any case, the relative brain size of Ptilodus is roughly equivalent to that of Chulsanbaatar, the only other multituberculate for which EQ has been calculated, but considerably smaller than that of an average extant mammnal.
Published in Vol. 22, Fasc. 2-3 (1993)
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