In the present work, we adopt the comparative logic and methodologies used by Fejfar and colleagues, embedding Spanish faunal assemblages into continental frameworks through the evolutionary history of arvicoline rodents. Over the past three decades in Spain, extensive new collections have been made…

Thanks to a multidisciplinary project on Grotta Romanelli started in 2015 (director. R. Sardella, Sapienza, University of Rome), new dating and new stratigraphic interpretations of the deposit have allowed us to understand that the deposit is much more complex than G. A. Blanc believed, and much…

The locality of Miesenheim I has yielded a rich assemblage of smaller mammals (Eulipotyphla, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia) comprising 28 taxa. Insectivores (Order Eulipotyphla), with over 2,000 identifiable remains, are well represented. The fauna includes four species from the family Soricidae (Neomys…

The first abundant vertebrate and mollusc fauna from a travertine complex Dreveník (northern Slovakia) is preliminarily reported. The greatly diversified community of small mammals (580 MNI, 38 spp.) is characterized by the simultaneous appearance of elements otherwise restricted to the earliest…

The familiar fat dormice, Glis, are among the most characteristic European rodents. With only two living species, their modern diversity represents but relics of an impressive past radiation, dating back to the Oligocene epoch, some 30 Ma. Throughout most of their evolutionary history, members of…

The Siwalik record includes the oldest stem representatives of the Murinae, and notably the genus Progonomys, the oldest known murine genus that dispersed broadly across the Old World. In this study we erect a new Siwalik murine genus to clarify the content of the genus Progonomys. This new genus…

Platacanthomyid rodents are rare finds in European Miocene mammalian faunas, but have proved to be useful for biochronology, since the only genus Neocometes has a long chronological range in the Early and Middle Miocene of Europe. The chronospecies concept established by Oldřich Fejfar, includes…

Prolagus michauxi López-Martínez, 1975 (Prolagidae, Lagomorpha) is one of the best known and most widespread species of its genus. It was described from Sète, a karst filling located in southern France that has yielded a rich fauna of micromammals. Its age is estimated between 3.5–3.0 Ma. This study…

The Csodabogyós Cave in western Hungary yielded a rich terrestrial vertebrate fauna during two excavations in 2023. The material comprises 1,053 amphibian and reptile remains, 51 bird bones, 5,640 identifiable mammal teeth and bones, and thousands of bone fragments. The fauna of the Csodabogyós Cave…

This publication aims to give a detailed taxonomic description of the rich Neocricetodon material collected from Csodabogyós Cave (Keszthely Hills, close to the village Balatonederics) in 2023. The sample is homogenous and close to Neocricetodon skofleki.

During study of the fossil rodent material from the Csodabogyós Cave, a rich Vasseuromys assemblage was elaborated. Some metrical and morphological characteristics of the finds differ from the Late Miocene (MN 11) Vasseuromys pannonicus from Eichkogel and Kohfidisch and also vary from Vasseuromys…

A detailed study was conducted of the fourth lower premolar (p4) of Ursus rossicus from several localities, representing different temporal stages in the evolution of the Eurasian Pleistocene biota. Distinctive features were identified of p4 molarisation at various stages of the evolution of small…

The Early Miocene anthracotheres from the Austrian Paratethyan Eggenburgian deposits of the Eggenburg Marine Bay have proven to be of great interest for taxonomy and biostratigraphy. The discovery of specimens in the region of Eggenburg led to the erection of the genus Brachyodus in 1895, and their…