Three new localities of fossil small mammal teeth from the Miocene Molasse of Eastern Switzerland (MN3 and MN7/8)

Bolliger, Thomas

doi:10.1127/njgpa/202/1996/95

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“…Although several hundred Miocene vertebrate fossil localities are known from the North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB; e.g. Ka ¨lin and Kempf 2009; Abdul Aziz et al 2010), the published record of Karydomys is restricted to a few isolated teeth from Middle Miocene localities in Switzerland (e.g., Garapich and Ka ¨lin 1999;Bolliger 2000;Ka ¨lin and Kempf 2009). Moreover, the genus has been reported from several fissure fillings in the Franconian Alb, Germany (Garapich and Ka ¨lin 1999;Mo ¨rs and Kalthoff 2004;Prieto 2012).…”

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First record of Karydomys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the German part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin

Prieto

Scholz

2013

Swiss J Geosci

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Karydomys, a rare genus of cricetid rodents from the Middle Miocene of central Europe, had previously been reported only from the Swiss part of the North Alpine Foreland basin; documented evidence from the German part was lacking. This paper describes several new specimens of Karydomys from the German localities Ho ¨ll and Laimering 3. A correlation of both localities to the Bavarian local biostratigraphic scale OSM F is proposed. Taxonomically, the fossils are most probably linked to K. wigharti from Hambach 6C (north-west Germany), and thus assigned to K. cf. wigharti. In spite of the scarcity of Karydomys fossils in the Upper Freshwatermolasse, the taxon is an important biostratigraphical marker because of its short stratigraphical range.

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