Micromammals from the late early Miocene of capak (western Anatolia) herald a time of change

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Tarih

2021

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Cambridge Univ Press

Erişim Hakkı

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Özet

The new fossil micromammal assemblage of capak represents a mixture of both Anatolian and European faunal elements. The locality is very important for understanding faunal evolution in the less well-known time interval at the end of the early Miocene of western Anatolia. In capak, nine species of rodents and one species of ochotonid were encountered: the hamsters Democricetodon gracilis, Megacricetodon primitivus, Eumyarion aff. E. montanus, Cricetodon cf. C. aliveriensis, Cricetodon sp., and Karydomys cf. K. strati, the mole-rat Debruijnia sp., the squirrel Aliveria luteyni, the dormouse Myomimus tanjuae n. sp., and the pika Albertona balkanica. The assemblage is referable to Anatolian local zone E or MN unit 4. The relative abundance of the various genera is markedly different from that of the older early Miocene assemblages, suggesting that the environment in Anatolia became drier and had a more open landscape. UUID: http://zoobank.org/75f3276c-dcd8-4090-b2f6-d8fc8d3c3f7c

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Anahtar Kelimeler

Eastern Mediterranean Area, Middle Miocene, Insectivore Faunas, Rodent Faunas, Aliveri Island, Mammals, Locality, Greece, Basin, Evia

Kaynak

Journal Of Paleontology

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Q3

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Q2

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95

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5

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