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Large apeomyine rodents (Mammalia, Eomyidae) from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2268-5824
2018 (English)In: Historical Biology, ISSN 0891-2963, E-ISSN 1029-2381Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

The dental material described in this paper was collected from fossiliferous ash layers of the Vogelsberg volcanic complex at Echzell, Germany. It consists of 32 teeth of a new large Apeomys species, Apeomys oldrichi n. sp., and 19 teeth of Megapeomys lindsayi Fejfar, Rummel and Tomida. Both species are extremely rare faunal elements in the early Miocene of Europe. Apeomys oldrichi n. sp. is the largest known Apeomys species, and occurs in a number of MN 3 – 4 sites in southern Germany and Czech Republic. Megapeomys lindsayi, the largest Eurasian apeomyine, was described on the basis of a single lower premolar. Herein both lower and upper cheek teeth as well as the lower deciduous premolar are described for the first time. In comparison with related populations from other localities, the evolutionary stage of the two apeomyine species clearly indicates a middle Orleanian age (MN 4) for Echzell which concurs with previous studies.

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London, 2018.
Keywords [en]
Biostratigraphy, Cenozoic, Neogene, Rodentia, systematics, tooth morphology
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Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
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Ecosystems and species history
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URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2477OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-2477DiVA, id: diva2:1149242
Available from: 2017-10-13 Created: 2017-10-13 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved

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