The aberrant hamster Melissiodon (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from the early Miocene of Echzell and other German and French localities
| العنوان: | The aberrant hamster Melissiodon (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from the early Miocene of Echzell and other German and French localities |
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| المؤلفون: | Jovells-Vaqué, Sílvia, Mörs, Thomas |
| المصدر: | Historical Biology. 35(6):821-831 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Rodents, early Miocene, diet, Cricetidae, MN3, MN4 |
| الوصف: | Melissiodon is a rare cricetid with a long stratigraphic range, present from the Oligocene until the Miocene, only found in western and central Europe except some specimens recovered in Anatolia. What makes Melissiodon special is its unique dental and mandible morphology that has led to many questions regarding its relationship to other cricetid genera and its type of diet. In this work, we have studied new material attributed to Melissiodon from the German localities Echzell (MN4) and Petersbuch (MN3 and MN4), and from the French locality Beaulieu (MN3). Moreover, we compared these specimens with the already published material from other localities across western and central Europe during the early Miocene (MN3 and MN4). In conclusion, the studied specimens and the comparison with other material from different European localities allow us to ascribe this new material as Melissiodon dominans, a widely dispersed species across Europe during the early Miocene |
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| URL الوصول: | https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-204687 https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2067758 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SwePub |
PDF full text from Publisher | تدمد: | 08912963 10292381 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/08912963.2022.2067758 |