taxonID	type	description	language	source
03A487ADFFB2FD67FF00FBCB71EFFE0E.taxon	materials_examined	HOLOTYPE: AMNH 26645. A crushed skull and a mandible, probably belonging to the same individual (Colbert, 1934). PARATYPES: AMNH 26644, 26646 – 26649, 26653 – 26659. Skulls, mandibles, forefeet and hind feet found in a small quarry, 6 miles west of Camp Margetts, Inner Mongolia.	en	Bai, Bin, Wang, Yuanqing, Meng, Jin (2010): New Craniodental Materials of Litolophus gobiensis (Perissodactyla, ‘‘ Eomoropidae’ ’) from Inner Mongolia, China, and Phylogenetic Analyses of Eocene Chalicotheres. American Museum Novitates 3688: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/678.1, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/678.1
03A487ADFFB2FD67FF00FBCB71EFFE0E.taxon	description	REFERRED SPECIMENS: IVPP V 16139, a relatively well-preserved skull with right P 2 – M 3 and left C – M 3; V 16140 - 1, a greater part of right side of a skull with P 1 – 4 and M 3; V 16141 - 1, a posterior portion of a skull with right P 2 – M 1, M 3 and left P 2 – 4, M 2 – 3; V 16141 - 2, a right side of the anterior portion of a skull; V 16142, a dorsoventrally compressed subadult skull with P 2 – M 3; V 16143, a fragmentary premaxilla with I 3; V 16144.1, a right I 2; V 16144.2, a left I 2; V 16144.3, a left I 2; V 16144.4, a right I 3; V 16147, a subadult mandible with right p 3 – m 3 and left i 1, p 2 – m 3; V 16148, a partial subadult left lower mandible with p 3 – m 3 and two i 1 s; V 16149, a nearly complete mandible with c – m 3; V 16150, a nearly complete mandible with p 2 – m 3; V 16167.1, a right i 2; V 16167.2, a right i 2; V 16167.3, a right i 2; V 16167.4, a left i 3; V 16167.5, a left i 3. EMENDED DIAGNOSIS: Medium-sized chalicotheres with low-crowned teeth; dental formula 3? 1? 4? 3 / 3? 1? 3? 3; a short diastema present between P 1 and P 2; P 3 – 4 metalophs joining the ectolophs in a low position, and paraconules usually well developed; upper molars with prominent parastyles and paraconules, but lacking mesostyles; paracones and metacones on upper molars nearly vertically implanted, protocones posteriorly extended, and metalophs oblique and relatively short; M 3 metaloph and metacone posterobuccally rotated; lower molar cristid obliqua anterolingually directed to the buccal sides of the ‘‘ metastylids, ’’ and the hypolophids oblique; posterior cingulids on m 1 – 2 raised upward but lacking the cuspate hypoconulids; m 3 with a well-developed hypoconulid lobe; parietal crests gently contracted behind postorbital processes; supraorbital foramen absent; paroccipital process slender and completely separated from the relatively broader and larger posttympanic process; posterior border of the palate nearly U-shaped at the level of posterior edge of M 3; ventral surface of the promontorium smooth; deep fossa for the stapedius muscle present; mandible long and slender, with long shallow symphysis and high ascending ramus; angular process of the mandible with a nearly semicircular border. LOCALITY AND HORIZON: Nuhetingboerhe, Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China. Lower part of the Arshanto Formation; early Arshantan (Early Eocene).	en	Bai, Bin, Wang, Yuanqing, Meng, Jin (2010): New Craniodental Materials of Litolophus gobiensis (Perissodactyla, ‘‘ Eomoropidae’ ’) from Inner Mongolia, China, and Phylogenetic Analyses of Eocene Chalicotheres. American Museum Novitates 3688: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/678.1, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/678.1
