Gerhard Storch – a legend in mammal research (II) Thomas Lehmann, Anne Storch, Angelika Helfricht, Katrin Krohmann, Ivan Horáček, Irina Ruf, Lutz C. Maul
Unexpected inhibitory cascade in the molariforms of sloths (Folivora, Xenarthra): a case study in xenarthrans honouring Gerhard Storch’s open-mindedness Luciano Varela, P. Sebastián Tambusso, Richard A. Fariña The inhibitory cascade (IC) represents a developmental model that explains the evolution of molar relative sizes, originally described in rodents but later validated in several mammalian groups. The IC comprises signalling molecules produced by the first molar buds that inhibit the development of…
Late Pleistocene (Eemian) mollusk and small mammal fauna from Mikhailovka-5 (Kursk oblast, Central Russia) Alexander K. Agadjanian, Peter Kondrashov The locality Mikhailovka-5 is situated in the northern part of the Mikhailovka quarry in the northwest of the Kursk Oblast in central Russia. A rich mollusk fauna was collected along with small mammal remains from this lacustrine deposit located between Likhvinian (= Holsteinian) fossil soils and…
Mortality profiles of Castor and Trogontherium (Mammalia: Rodentia, Castoridae), with notes on the site formation of the Mid-Pleistocene hominin locality Bilzingsleben II (Thuringia, Central Germany) Wolf-Dieter Heinrich, Lutz C. Maul The Middle Pleistocene site Bilzingsleben II is well-known for its wealth of vertebrate and archaeological remains. Of particular importance is the record of Homo erectus bilzingslebenensis. Most palaeontologists consider the find horizon as a primary vertebrate deposit formed during human…
Independent water vole (Mimomys savini, Arvicola: Rodentia, Mammalia) lineages in Italy and Central Europe Federico Masini, Lutz C. Maul, Laura Abbazzi, Daria Petruso, Andrea Savorelli Water voles are important key fossils of the Quaternary. Given their wide distribution, regional differences were expected to exist in different areas. Early hints on possible independent evolutionary trends of water voles in Italy came from palaeontology and specifically from the comparison of…
Allosorex stenodus Fejfar, 1966 (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae): re-description of type material and re-interpretation of its fossil record Oldřich Fejfar, Wighart v. Koenigswald, Martin Sabol The original fossil record of Allosorex stenodus Fejfar, 1966 from Ivanovce (late Ruscinian, MN 15b) is redescribed and supplemented by the description of so far unpublished fossil remains, including upper dentition (P4 and M3) and a humerus fragment as well as the enamel microstructure…
Lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the early Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria Sevket Sen The vertebrate locality of Dorkovo yielded a rich mammalian assemblage of which some large mammals have been studied, but not smaller mammals. The previous investigations correlated this fauna to the early Pliocene (early Ruscinian, MN 14). The present paper describes lagomorph remains which consist…
Generically speaking, a survey on Neogene rodent diversity at the genus level in the NOW database Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Melike Bilgin, Yanell Braumuller, János Hír, Peter Joniak, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, Jérôme Prieto, Panagiotis Skandalos, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar Over the last half a century, a massive amount of data has been gathered on Neogene rodents of Europe. Using the NOW database, we analysed changes in generic diversity during the Neogene and the beginning of the Quaternary. Studies as the present are useful for exploring major changes in diversity,…
Castor-like postcranial adaptation in an uppermost Miocene beaver from the Staniantsi Basin (NW Bulgaria) Thomas Sebastian Lechner, Madelaine Böhme The Staniantsi-Mazgoš Basin is one of several Neogene intramontane basins in NW Bulgaria. Recent fieldwork in the open pit coal mine yielded material of an exceptional diversity of vertebrates from the uppermost Miocene. In particular, skeletal remains of a large Castorinae are very numerous and…
Beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia) from the late Miocene (MN 9) locality Grytsiv in Ukraine Leonid Rekovets, Clara Stefen, Vitalii Demeshkant Here we report about the presence of fossils belonging to different beaver lineages from the late Miocene (MN 9, Vallesian) of Grytsiv (western Ukraine). Among them, nine isolated molars were assigned to Chalicomys jaegeri and described in detail here for the first time. Morphologically…
Dental anomaly in a middle Miocene fossil of the genus Spermophilinus (Rodentia, Sciuridae) from southern Germany Jérôme Prieto, Michael Rummel, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, Davit Vasilyan The maxillary presented in this work has been excavated in the middle Miocene karst filling Petersbuch 136 (Germany, Bavaria) and shows the oldest evidence of dental anomaly in a sciurid. The aberrant morphology, probably hyperdontia or no replacement of roots of deciduous teeth, affects the area of…
The Eomyidae in Asia: Biogeography, diversity and dispersals Yuri Kimura, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Olivier Maridet, Daniela C. Kalthoff, Thomas Mörs, Yukimitsu Tomida In Asia, the first find of an eomyid rodent was reported almost one century after the first studies of the family Eomyidae in North America and Europe. Since then, eomyid rodents have been increasingly found in Asia particularly over the past two decades. Here, we review the Asian record of this…
New genus of amphicyonid carnivoran (Mammalia, Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the phosphorites of Quercy (France) Louis de Bonis An isolated mandible of Carnivora (Mammalia) from the phosphorites of Quercy (France) is described as a new genus. It is compared with the amphicyonid genus Cynodictis, some primitive North American amphicyonids, and with European and North American Eocene carnivoraforms. I conclude that it is…
Erratum To the arcticle: Tonarová, P., Vodrážková, S., Hints, O., Männik, P., Kubajko, M., Frýda, J. (2019): Llandovery microfossils and microfacies of the Hýskov section, Prague Basin. – Fossil Imprint, 75(1): 25–43. https://doi.org/10.2478/if-2019-0002
Erratum To the article: Vianey-Liaud, M., Marivaux, L., Lehmann, T. (2019): A reevaluation of the taxonomic status of the rodent Masillamys Tobien, 1954 from Messel (Germany, late early to early middle Eocene, 48–47 m.y.). – Fossil Imprint, 75(3-4): 454–483. https://doi.org10.2478/if-2019-0028
