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Dentition Anomalies in Nesophontidae (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Cuba

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The study of the remains of Nesophontes micrus Allen, 1917 and N. major Arredondo, 1970 from El Abrón Cave (Republic of Cuba, Pinar del Río Province, Late Pleistocene) allowed to establish for the first time anomalies of the dentition in Nesophontidae. Failures of eruption of teeth (impaction of I3 in N. micrus, retention or impaction of P2 in N. major), as well as malformations (aberrant I3 in N. micrus, P2 and P4 in N. major), are the developmental abnormalities. The absence of P2 and M2 in combination with reossification of their alveoli in N. major is caused by dental injuries and diseases.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author thanks Doctor F.M. Gonzáles Bermúdez and K.A. Méndez García (Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment of the Republic of Cuba, CITMA) for institutional assistance and friendly support; E. Péres Lorenzo (National Museum of Natural History of Cuba), N.V. Zelenkov, A.K. Agadjanyan (PIN), and the entire staff of JRCPE for the participation in the expedition in 2019; and A.V. Pakhnevich and R.A. Rakitov (PIN) for technical support with tomography and SEM-images.

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The study was carried out as part of the work of the JRCPE and partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and CITMA, project no. 18-54-34004 “Late Quaternary Vertebrates of Cuba: Relictual Faunas on the Eve of the Holocene Extinction.”

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Lopatin, A.V. Dentition Anomalies in Nesophontidae (Lipotyphla, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Cuba. Dokl Biol Sci 497, 51–55 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496621020071

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