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The new Early Miocene bat records from the Molasse sites of South Germany

Valentina V. Rosina, Michael Rummel

Fossil bats are described from deposits of the Upper Freshwater Molasse of the Forsthart and Rembach sites in East Bavaria of South Germany (MN 4). The material comprises 13 fragments, representing at least six different species, all belonging to Vespertilionidae. A fossil form from Rembach, close…

Revision of the European species of Prosantorhinus HEISSIG, 1974 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae)

Kurt Heissig

It is not size that distinguishes the genus Prosantorhinus HEISSIG, 1974 from Diaceratherium DIETRICH, 1931, but the following characters: a concave dorsal skull proﬁ le with upslanting nasals and narrowing on the distal side of the last upper molar. Using these characters, in addition to the…

First record of the “small cave bear” in Bulgaria and the taxonomic status of bears of the Ursus savini ANDREWS – Ursus rossicus BORISSIAK group

Spassov Nikolai, Latinka Hristova, Stefanka Ivanova, Ivan Georgiev

The discovery of rich, well preserved skull material in the latest Middle Pleistocene deposits of Mishin Kamik cave (N-W Bulgaria) presents an opportunity for a new analysis of the taxonomy and the phylogeny of the so called “small cave bears”. Not all the small cave bears known would have…

A new species of Plesiosorex (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) from the Early Miocene of Japan: first record of the genus from East Asia

Mitsuharu Oshima, Yukimitsu Tomida, Takamichi Orihara

A nearly complete dentary with preserved i2, p3 and m1 of a relatively large soricomorph from the Dota locality, Kani Basin, Early Miocene (ca. 18.5 Ma), Nakamura Formation of the Mizunami Group in central Japan, is described as a new species of Plesiosorex. It represents the ﬁrst record of the…

Large Mammals from the Rupelian of Oman – Recent Finds

Mohammed Al-Kindi, Martin Pickford, Yusouf Al-Sinani, Ibrahim Al-Ismaili, Axel Hartman, Alan Heward

The 2017 ﬁeld survey of the Ashawq Formation, Dhofar, Oman, resulted in the collection of large mammal remains, most of which belong to Afrotheria, but with one artiodactyl lineage indicating the possibility of dispersal links with Eurasia. The new fossil remains increase our knowledge about the…

Pavlovian hunters on the margin – archaeozoological analysis of the animal remains discovered at the Pavlov II site (1966 – 67 excavations)

Jarosław Wilczyński, Piotr Wojtal, Jiří Svoboda

Our archaeozoological studies concerns animal remains discovered during ﬁeldworks led by B. Klíma in 1966 – 1967. The study does not include a few bone tools and personal ornaments made from animal teeth. There were analysed 968 remains of different animal species. Among the mammals, the most…

New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia)

Jorge Morales, Martin Pickford

Recent palaeontological surveys in Early Miocene sediments at Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia) have resulted in the collection of a number of small to medium-sized hyaenodonts and carnivorans, some of which were poorly represented in previous collections. The present article…

Consumption of canid meat at the Gravettian Předmostí site, the Czech Republic

Mietje Germonpré, Martina Lázničková-Galetová, Elodie-Laure Jimenez, Robert Losey, Mikhail Sablin, Hervé Bocherens, Martine Broeck

Předmostí is one of the most famous Gravettian sites in Central Europe. Its fame is based on a unique human assemblage, sadly largely destroyed during the Second World War, a huge mammoth assemblage and a very rich large canid assemblage. It has been shown previously that mammoth played an important…

Late Miocene (Early Turolian) vertebrate faunas and associated biotic record of the Northern Caucasus: Geology, palaeoenvironment, biochronology

Alexey S. Tesakov, Vadim V. Titov, Alexandra N. Simakova, Pavel D. Frolov, Elena V. Syromyatnikova, Sergey V. Kurshakov, Natalia V. Volkova, Yaroslav I. Trikhunkov, Marina V. Sotnikova, Sergey V. Kruskop, Nikita V. Zelenkov, Ekaterina M. Tesakova, Dmitry M. Palatov

Late Miocene continental deposits overlying the Khersonian marine sediments near the city of Maikop bordering the Belaya River (North Caucasus) yielded a diverse biotic record including palynology, ostracods, fresh-water and terrestrial molluscs, ﬁshes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, and mammals.…

Democricetodon fejfari sp. nov. and replacement of Cricetidae by Muridae in Siwalik deposits of Pakistan

Everett Lindsay

Democricetodon is a core genus within the family Cricetidae; it is recorded in many regions of Asia and Europe, and has left many descendants. One of the early radiations of Democricetodon was in southern Asia, where it radiated for about 10 my, from about 18 Ma to about 8 Ma, during the Miocene…

Everything is a question of time – the age of important Quaternary palaeontological finds from Westphalia

Markus Bertling, Doris Döppes, Wilfried Rosendahl

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) was used to establish the age of three mammal specimens from the Quaternary of the Münsterland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The dated samples represent regionally important ﬁnds: The woolly mammoth from Ahlen with an age of 41 ka BP and the musk-ox from Herne…

Genus Apodemus in the Pleistocene of Central Europe: when did the extant taxa appear?

Markéta Knitlová, Ivan Horáček

The extant species of the genus Apodemus represent the most common small mammals of Central Europe. Unfortunately, their phylogenetic past is only poorly known. With the aid of detailed biometric analyses we tried to identify the ﬁrst appearance of the phenotypic patterns characterizing the extant…

Anterior premolar variability in Pleistocene cave and brown bears and its significance in species determination

Martina Pacher

The current study deals with the anterior premolar pattern in the cave and brown bear lineage, and its signiﬁcance in species determination. The occurrence of single premolars and its combinations in skulls and mandibles is recorded for various chronological and regional groups. Both lineages…

Comments on the age and dispersal of Microtoscoptini (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Lutz C. Maul, Leonid I. Rekovets, Wolf-Dieter Heinrich, Angela A. Bruch

The tribe Microtoscoptini, comprising the genera Microtoscoptes from Eurasia and Paramicrotoscoptes and Goniodontomys from North America, is an enigmatic group of microtoid cricetids, which was widespread during the Late Miocene. Although fossil remains have been reported from 33 localities, their…

The mammalian fauna of Barová Cave (Moravian Karst, the Czech Republic)

Martina Roblíčková, Vlastislav Káňa, Miriam Nývltová Fišáková

Barová Cave is located in the central part of the Moravian Karst (the Czech Republic), on the right slope of Josefovské Valley; it is the outﬂow part of Rudické propadání (Rudice Sink) – Býčí skála (Bull Rock) cave system. Even since its discovery by A. Sobol in 1947, Barová Cave has been known as…

Taxonomic revision of bears from the locality Šandalja I (Croatia) and its biostratigraphic consequences

Jan Wagner, Qigao Jiangzuo, Jadranka Mauch Lenardić, Jinyi Liu

Šandalja I palaeocave (“fossil” cave), situated in the southern part of the Istrian peninsula (Croatia), is a well-known locality due to the abundant fossil remains extracted from the bone breccia. It is broadly accepted that the fauna is Middle Villafranchian in age. Since the beginning, the…

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