Insectivore palaeoecology. A case study of a Miocene fissure filling in Germany
- Author(s)
- Johannes Klietmann, Lars W van den Hoek Ostende, Doris Nagel, Michael Rummel
- Abstract
Many Miocene localities yielded considerable numbers of eulipotyphlan fossils. The group as awhole is generally
considered to be indicative for humid environments, but little is known about the preferences of specific taxa.We
discuss the insectivores found in the German fissure filling Petersbuch 28, including an insectivorous marsupial,
in an attempt to refine the knowledge of the preferred environments of insectivores. For this, we compared the
assemblage in quantitative analyses with other insectivore assemblages of similar age. Our results show that, in
full accordance with previous hypotheses, dimylids, most moles and shrews were shown to be indicators for
humid environments, like swamps or humid forests, whereas the hedgehogs, the moles Desmanodon and
Theratiskos and the shrew Oligosorex were more common in dryer environments.- Organisation(s)
- Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Naturmuseum Augsburg
- Journal
- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
- Volume
- 418
- Pages
- 278-289
- No. of pages
- 12
- ISSN
- 0031-0182
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.11.019
- Publication date
- 2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105118 Palaeontology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, Palaeontology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/insectivore-palaeoecology-a-case-study-of-a-miocene-fissure-filling-in-germany(8bb266c7-8e87-48eb-96ee-a04a4fac1012).html