A gap in digging: the Talpidae of Petersbuch 28 (Germany, Early Miocene)
- Autor(en)
- Johannes Klietmann, Doris Nagel, Michael Rummel, Lars W van den Hoek Ostende
- Abstrakt
Abstract In the Miocene, the talpid diversity was much
higher than today. Especially the semifossorial and
ambulatory moles were farther distributed and more common.
Here, the talpids from the Bavarian fissure filling
Petersbuch 28 (Early Miocene, MN 3) are described. The
uropsiline Desmanella engesseri Ziegler, 1985 is the most
frequent species, followed by Myxomygale hutchisoni
(Ziegler, 1985), an urotrichine less specialized towards
burrowing. The fossorial talpids Talpa sp. and Proscapanus
intercedens Ziegler, 1985 are represented by humeri,
P. intercedens by a few teeth. Some teeth could not be
determined to species level. Among the rich postcranial
material, the humerus of Desmanella engesseri was found
for the first time. Compared to other Miocene localities,
Petersbuch 28 is unique in the dominance of only superficially
burrowing and semifossorial talpids. In the time
from MN 2 to MN 7 ? 8 (Early to Middle Miocene), the
fossorial talpids were less dominant during MN 2 and most- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Paläontologie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Naturmuseum Augsburg
- Journal
- Palaeontologische Zeitschrift
- Band
- 89
- Seiten
- 563-592
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 30
- ISSN
- 0031-0220
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-014-0228-2
- Publikationsdatum
- 09-2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 105118 Paläontologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Palaeontology
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5ad33ab5-c6ca-4d34-8d98-d17a256cd15d