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de Bruijn H, Marković Z, Wessels W, et al. Rodent faunas from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia. Paleobiodivers Paleoenviron. 2017;98(3):441-458doi: 10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0.
de Bruijn, H., Marković, Z., Wessels, W., Milivojević, M., & van de Weerd, A. A. (2018). Rodent faunas from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia. Palaeobiodiversity and palaeoenvironments, 98(3), 441-458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0
de Bruijn, Hans, et al. "Rodent faunas from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia." Palaeobiodiversity and palaeoenvironments vol. 98,3 (2018): 441-458. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0
de Bruijn H, Marković Z, Wessels W, Milivojević M, van de Weerd AA. Rodent faunas from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia. Paleobiodivers Paleoenviron. 2018;98(3):441-458. doi: 10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0. Epub 2017 Nov 10. PMID: 30956713; PMCID: PMC6417383.
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Paleobiodivers Paleoenviron. 2018;98(3):441-458. doi: 10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0. Epub 2017 Nov 10.

Rodent faunas from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia.

Palaeobiodiversity and palaeoenvironments

Hans de Bruijn, Zoran Marković, Wilma Wessels, Miloš Milivojević, Andrew A van de Weerd

Affiliations

  1. 1Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584CS Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  2. Natural History Museum in Belgrade, Njegoševa 51, Belgrade, 11000 Serbia.

PMID: 30956713 PMCID: PMC6417383 DOI: 10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0

Abstract

Seven new rodent faunas are described from the Pčinja and Babušnica-Koritnica basins of south-east Serbia. The geology of the Tertiary deposits in the Pčinja and Koritnica-Babušnica basins of south-east Serbia is briefly reviewed. The fossil content of the new vertebrate localities is listed, and an inventory of the rodent associations is presented. The rodent associations are late Eocene-early Oligocene in age, interpreted on biostratigraphical grounds. These are the first rodent faunas of that age from the Balkan area, an important palaeogeographic location between Europe and Asia. The Muridae, with the subfamilies Pseudocricetodontinae, Paracricetodontinae, Pappocricetodontinae, Melissiodontinae and ?Spalacinae, are dominant with eight genera, four of which are new. The diversity of the Melissiodontinae and Paracricetodontinae in the faunas suggests that these subfamilies originated in this region. The bi-lophodont cheek teeth occurring in the Oligocene assemblages are identified as the first record of the Diatomyidae outside of Asia. In light of the large amount of new data, the palaeogeographic setting and faunal turnover of the Eocene-Oligocene is discussed.

Keywords: Eocene; Mammalia; Oligocene; Rodentia; south-east Serbia

Conflict of interest statement

Compliance with ethical standardsThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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