Subjects: Biology >> Zoology submitted time 2022-08-02 Cooperative journals: 《古脊椎动物学报》
Abstract: Qi (1990) named a new hyracodontid genus Ulania from the Middle Eocene deposits of Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China. However, the generic name has been preoccupied by Ulania Lin & Zhang, 1979, a Cambrian trilobite (Zhu et al., 1979:103). We therefore propose a new generic name Ulanodon gen. nov. to replace Ulania Qi, 1990. “Ulan” means red in color in Mongolian language, and the Greek “-odon” is a common root in hyracodontid names meaning teeth. We thank Mr. John Ponting for bringing this issue to our attention, and Dr. Wang Yuan-Qing for the suggestion of the new generic name.