Insectivore palaeoecology. A case study of a Miocene fissure filling in Germany

Autor(en)

Johannes Klietmann, Lars W van den Hoek Ostende, Doris Nagel, Michael Rummel

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Paläontologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Naturmuseum Augsburg

Journal

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Band

418

Seiten

278-289

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

0031-0182

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.11.019

Publikationsdatum

2015

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

105118 Paläontologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, Palaeontology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/insectivore-palaeoecology-a-case-study-of-a-miocene-fissure-filling-in-germany(8bb266c7-8e87-48eb-96ee-a04a4fac1012).html