scholarly journals Sorex bifidus n. sp. and the rich insectivore mammal fauna (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Żabia Cave in Poland

10.26879/376 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rzebik-Kowalska
Keyword(s):  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
The Rich

Small mammal assemblages from the Quaternary succession at Moriaanshoofd (Zeeland, the Netherlands) and their significance for correlating the Oosterschelde fauna

2014 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.F. Mayhew ◽  
F.E. Dieleman ◽  
A.A. Slupik ◽  
L.W. van den Hoek Ostende ◽  
J.W.F. Reumer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Small Mammals ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mammal Assemblages ◽  
Mammal Faunas

AbstractWe investigated fossil small mammals from a borehole near Moriaanshoofd (Zeeland, southwest Netherlands) in order to get better insights in the fossil mammal faunas that are found in the subsurface in the southwestern Netherlands, and to investigate the age and provenance of the mammal fauna that is being dredged from the deep tidal gullies in the nearby Oosterschelde estuary. The record in the borehole covers Gelasian (Early Pleistocene) to Holocene deposits, represented by six formations. Thirty-nine specimens of small mammals were obtained from the borehole. These fossils derived from the Early Pleistocene marine Maassluis Formation and from directly overlying deposits of a Late Pleistocene age. During Weichselian times (33–24 ka), a proto-Schelde River shaped the northern Oosterschelde area. The river reworked substantial amounts of Early and Middle Pleistocene deposits. At the base of the Schelde-derived fluvial sequence (regionally described as the Koewacht Formation), Gelasian vertebrate faunas were concentrated in the channel lag. The Late Pleistocene channel lag is almost certainly the main source for the rich Early Pleistocene vertebrate faunas with larger mammals dredged from the Oosterschelde.

Two New Cassis (Gastropoda: Cassidae) and a New Malea (Gastropoda: Tonnidae) from the Pliocene and Pleistocene Beds of Southern Florida

The Festivus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Edward Petuch ◽  
David Berschauer
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Kissimmee River ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Southern Florida ◽  
Direct Ancestor

Two new fossil Helmet Shells of the genus Cassis Scopoli, 1777 (Cassidae) and a new fossil Grinning Tun Shell of the genus Malea Valenciennes, 1832 (Tonnidae) are described from the Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil beds of southern Florida. The new Helmet Shells, Cassis rasae n. sp. and Cassis viliusi n. sp., were both collected in the rich fossil beds of the Holey Land Member of the Bermont Formation (Calabrian Stage, Early Pleistocene) and the new Grinning Tun, Malea hyaducki n. sp., was collected in the Fruitville Member (Kissimmee River Valley equivalent beds) of the Tamiami Formation (late Piacenzian Stage of the Pliocene). The discovery of two new large Helmet Shells in the Holey Land Member demonstrates that four species of Cassis are present in the Bermont Formation, making this the single largest fossil Cassis fauna found anywhere on Earth. The new Grinning Tun represents the oldest-known Malea found in Florida, and is the direct ancestor of the Gelasian Pleistocene Malea springi (Caloosahatchee Formation) and the Calabrian Pleistocene Malea petiti (Bermont Formation).

scholarly journals MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SMALL MAMMAL fAUNAS Of EUROPE: EVOLUTION, BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, CORRELATIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Markova ◽  
A. Yu. Puzachenko
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
Mammal Evolution ◽  
Phylogenetic Lineages ◽  
Mammal Faunas

The paper is concerned with the small mammal fauna evolution in Europe in the Middle Pleistocene. The information on the faunas of the end of the Early Pleistocene has been also taken into consideration. The data available made possible identifying several stages in the small mammal evolution. Not all intervals within the Middle Pleistocene are provided with sufficient information for recognizing individual stages; that is particularly true for the cold periods of the Middle Pleistocene – the Donian and the Okian glaciations (=Elsterian, =Anglian). Based on the studies of small mammal localities, the biostratigraphic scheme has been developed, the principal phylogenetic lineages of Arvicolinae were traced, and maps of the Middle Pleistocene small mammal localities have been compiled

scholarly journals Pliocene (Tertiary) and Early Pleistocene (Quaternary) Mammalia of East Anglia, Great Britain, in Relation to the Appearance of Man

1922 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 433-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Northern Forest ◽  
The North ◽  
Mammal Fauna

In studying the evolution and distribution of the Proboscidea and the arrival of man in Great Britain (Osborn, 1922, 1922a, 1922b), the writer has recently had occasion to review the faunal researches of Lydekker and Newton, and the collection of Mr. A. C. Savin, in connexion with the very interesting question of the geologic correlation of Great Britain with the Upper Pliocene fauna of Europeto the south-east, and of the Scandinavian Glaciation I on the north, with the advent of the northern forest, the boreal, and the Arctic mammal fauna of Great Britain.

scholarly journals Pleistocene mammal fauna of the Trlica locality, Montenegro

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre K. Agadzhanyan ◽  
Inesa A. Vislobokova ◽  
Mikhail V. Shunkov ◽  
V. A. Ulyanov
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Large Mammal ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
Local Areas ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Cool Climate

The paper presents new evidence on the small and large mammal fauna from the Trlica locality, Montenegro, based on our records from the 2010 – 2014 excavations. It is shown that the lower layers of the locality correspond to the Early Pleistocene, and the upper layers are dated as the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene. The results obtained allow us to characterize the environment in which the oldest hominid migrants dwelt in this region of South-Eastern Europe. Within the interval 1.8–1.5 Ma, there was a relatively cool climate in the region. At the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene, the climate became milder; the areas occupied by forests, including broad-leaved forests, increased. The presence of Lagurini throughout the section is evidence of the existence of local areas of steppe in northern Montenegro during the Early Pleistocene and first half of the Middle Pleistocene.

scholarly journals A Villafranchian Hipparion-Bearing Mammal Fauna from Sésklo (E. Thessaly, Greece): Implications for the Question of Hipparion–Equus Sympatry in Europe

Quaternary ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanassios Athanassiou
Keyword(s):  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Fossil Assemblage ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
Fossil Material

Recently collected fossil material in the Villafranchian locality of Sésklo, as well as a re-evaluation of a pre-existing, partly-published museum collection, allow the recognition of a lower faunal level in the locality, older than the main Equus-dominated fossil assemblage, dated in the Early Pleistocene (MNQ17). The lower level yielded, instead, an advanced hipparion, referred to the species Plesiohipparion cf. shanxiense, and a small number of associated taxa: an ostrich (Struthio cf. chersonensis), an unidentified proboscidean, the pig Sus arvernensis, two antelopes (Gazella cf. bouvrainae and Gazellospira torticornis), a large bovid (Bovini indet.), and a rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus sp.). The lower-level fauna is dated in the latest Pliocene (MN16) and indicates a rather open and dry palaeoenvironment. The faunal sequence in Sésklo shows that the hipparion did not co-occur with the stenonid horse, at least in this region. Previous reports on sympatry of these taxa may result from faunal mixing, requiring re-examination of the available samples.

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