Urmiatherium intermedium Bohlin, 1935

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Urmiatherium intermedium Bohlin, 1935

Type material: Bohlin (1935) did not indicate any holotype specimen for U. intermedium . EMUU Ex. 1 ( Bohlin 1935: fig. 2, pl. 2: 1–3), an almost complete male skull from Locality 30 of Shaanxi Province, China, is therefore here designated as the lectotype of this species.

Type locality: Locality 30, Shaanxi Province, China .

Type horizon: Most likely middle or late Turolian, Late Miocene.

Emended diagnosis (modified from Bohlin 1935).—Slightly smaller than the type species; horncores short and wide at the base; rostrum relatively long and narrow; maxillae short; lacrimal fossae shallow; frontals abruptly stepped in lateral view; molars relatively small; females horned.

Geographic and stratigraphic range.— The species is known from Loc. 30, 43, 44, 49, and 108 of Shaanxi and Loc. 115, 116 of Kansu Province in N. China, all of them of Late Mio−

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cene, and most probably of middle–late Turolian, age ( Chen and Zhang 2009).