Bone microanatomy and weight-bearing adaptations in the giant proboscidean Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup, 1829)
Author
Bader, Camille
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Adaptations du Vivant, UMR 7179, Mécanismes adaptatifs et Évolution (MECADEV), MNHN, CNRS, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)
camille.bader@edu.mnhn.fr
Author
Gasparik, Mihály
Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre, Budapest, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Paleontology and Geology, H- 1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2. (Hungary)
gasparik.mihaly@nhmus.hu
Author
Segesdi, Martin
Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre, Budapest, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Department of Paleontology and Geology, H- 1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2. (Hungary) and ELTE EÖtvÖs Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Paleontology, H- 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1 / c (Hungary)
martinsegesdi@gmail.com
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Geodiversitas
2026
2026-04-16
48
7
127
143
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2026v48a7
1638-9395
19604419
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F30CD99A-E3AA-4E38-A915-8411FC2A0061
TABLE 1. — Linear measurements taken on the two femora of Deinotherium giganteum (Kaup, 1829) and Mammuthus sp. Abbreviations: AmaxT, absolute maximal cortical thickness; D, corresponding diaphyseal diameter; RmaxT, relative maximal cortical thickness defined as the ratio of AmaxT to D.| Species | Specimen ID | AmaxT (cm) | D (cm) | RmaxT |
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| Deinotherium giganteum | HNHM-V.79.166 | 4.86 | 13.51 | 0.36 |
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| Mammuthus sp. | HNHM-PAL 2025.5.1 | 1.08 | 9.45 | 0.11 |
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