No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. (2023)

IF 1.7 3区地球科学 Q2 PALEONTOLOGY

Palaeoworld Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI:10.1016/j.palwor.2024.02.002

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Abstract

Crespo et al. (2023) have recently described a new genus and species called Europotamogale melkarti, purportedly an afrosoricid ‘tourist genus’ coming from central Africa to Spain during the Pliocene. The occurrence of this mysterious animal has been justified by means of a migration of thousands of kilometers leaving no other fossil evidence all along such an incredible journey. According to our analyses, this ‘tourist genus’ is surrounded by many inconsistent facts, which lead us to the conclusion that Europotamogale should not have been erected as a new taxon because its holotype (and only element yet known) belongs to a very different animal. We alternatively propose that this fossil is indeed a fragment of a tooth of a water-mole of the genus Archaeodesmana, which is a much more parsimonious hypothesis.

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口袋里装着奥卡姆剃刀的上新世游客无处可去：对克雷斯波等人（2023）的评论

Crespo 等人（2023 年）最近描述了一种名为 Europotamogale melkarti 的新属和新种，据称这是一种在上新世期间从非洲中部来到西班牙的 "旅游属 "动物。这种神秘动物的出现是通过数千公里的迁徙来证明的，在这段不可思议的旅程中没有留下任何其他化石证据。根据我们的分析，这个 "旅游属 "被许多不一致的事实所包围，这些事实使我们得出结论：Europotamogale 不应该被立为一个新的类群，因为它的主模式（也是目前已知的唯一元素）属于一种非常不同的动物。我们还提出了另一种假设，即该化石确实是 Archaeodesmana 属水鼹鼠的牙齿碎片，这是一种更为合理的假设。

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