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Ecological and phenotypic divergence in Iberian shrews (Soricidae)

Claudia Rey, Víctor Noguerales, Vicente García‐Navas

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research > 57 > 3 > 642 - 661

There are examples of coexisting species with similar morphology and ecology, in apparent contradiction to competition theory. Shrews (Soricidae) are a paradigmatic example of this because members of this group exhibit a conserved body form, relatively low variability in lifestyle, and, in many cases, a sympatric distribution. Here, we combined geometric morphometrics and ecological niche modeling...

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From micromammals to paleoenvironments

Orr Comay, Tamar Dayan

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences > 2018 > 10 > 8 > 2159-2171

Micromammal assemblages are often used in paleoecological reconstructions. However, in studies to date, the environmental variables reconstructed were not shown to drive micromammal community structure before the reconstruction was attempted. Furthermore, the relative abundance data is too often dismissed despite its potential paleoecological value. Here we chose to reconstruct the botanical succession...

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New biostratigraphical data for the Burdigalian Montchaibeux Member at the locality Courrendlin-Solé (Canton of Jura, Switzerland)

Jérôme Prieto, Damien Becker, Gaëtan Rauber, Claudius M. Pirkenseer

Swiss Journal of Geosciences > 2018 > 111 > 1-2 > 1-11

Geological surveys were carried out in the Miocene deposits at the place known as “En Solé” east of the village Courrendlin (Delémont Basin, Canton of Jura, Switzerland). This resulted in the discovery of new Miocene small mammal assemblages. The association of the rodents Megacricetodon aff. collongensis and Melissiodon sp. allows to biochronostratigraphically correlate for the first time the so-called...

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Geology and paleontology of Tresjuncos (Cuenca, Spain), a new diatomaceous deposit with Konservat-Lagerstätte characteristics from the European late Miocene

María Ángeles Bustillo, Margarita Díaz-Molina, María José López-García, Xavier Delclòs, more

Journal of Iberian Geology > 2017 > 43 > 3 > 395-411

Purpose A new Iberian Konservat-Lagerstätte discovered in Tresjuncos (Cuenca, Spain) is described and interpreted based on geological and paleontological information. Methods The samples were studied using conventional mineralogical (powder X-ray diffraction), petrographic (optical and scanning electron microscopy) and geochemical (X-ray energy-dispersive spectrometry) techniques. Results Based...

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Badenian and Sarmatian s.str. from the Carpathian area: Taxonomical notes concerning the Hungarian and Romanian small vertebrates and report on the ruminants from the Felsőtárkány Basin

János Hír, Márton Venczel, Vlad Codrea, Gertrud E. Rössner, more

Comptes Rendus Palevol > 2017 > 16 > 3 > 312-332

Over the last decade, important progress has been made in the study of the mammal successions from Hungary and Romania. A critical review of the taxonomy of the published small mammals is provided herein, as well as some new data and an overview of the accompanying vertebrate fauna (excluding fishes) in their stratigraphic context. In addition, the first data regarding the ruminants from Mátraszőlős...

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A multiproxy study of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions of an anastomosed fluvial sequence from the Çameli Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey)

Hülya Alçiçek, Frank P. Wesselingh, M. Cihat Alçiçek, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, more

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology > 2017 > 467 > C > 232-252

A multiproxy study of the anastomosed fluvial succession from the Çameli Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey) provides new insights on the palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographical evolution of an extensional basin located at the top of western Taurides mountain range in the eastern Mediterranean. Detailed sedimentological, palaeontological and geochemical analyses on biogenic carbonates were carried out...

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The vegetational and climatic contexts of the Lower Magdalenian human burial in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain): implications related to human behavior

María-José Iriarte-Chiapusso, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós

Journal of Archaeological Science > 2015 > 60 > Complete > 66-74

This paper presents and discusses the results of the studies of pollen and micro-mammal remains associated with the human burial in El Mirón Cave, dated in the Lower Magdalenian. The sedimentological integrity of the deposit has been confirmed through its comparison with the penecontemporaneous level in other parts of the cave. From the environmental point of view, this unit, like others of the same...

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Reptile and rodent parasites in raptor pellets in an archaeological context: the case of Epullán Chica (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina)

María Ornela Beltrame, Fernando Julián Fernández, Norma Haydeé Sardella

Quaternary Science Reviews > 2015 > 119 > C > 1-10

Paleoparasitology is the study of parasite remains from archaeological and paleontological sites. Raptor pellets can be used as source for paleoparasitological information in archaeological sites. However, this zooarchaeological material has been scarcely studied. Epullán Chica (ECh) is an archaeological site in northwestern Patagonia. This cave yielded remains from more than 2000 years before present...

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Pleistocene Micromammals and Their Predators at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo, D. Margaret Avery

African Archaeological Review > 2015 > 32 > 4 > 751-791

Wonderwerk Cave has produced exceptionally large micromammalian samples that provides a range of information pertaining to taphonomy, and prey-predator ecology, which will improve the precision of environmental interpretation. Here, we examine these aspects for mid-Pleistocene strata 12 and 11, and conclude from the taphonomic evidence that the main predator responsible for the small mammal assemblages...

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Analyse des micromammifères du site épigravettien de Mezhyrich (Ukraine)

Leonid Rekovets, Dariusz Nowakowski, Katarzyna Lech

L'Anthropologie > 2014 > 118 > 5 > 518-537

Une analyse détaillée des micromammifères du site épigravettien de Mezhyrich, comprenant une analyse quantitative de la faune et une description morphologique comparée des restes de micromammifères, est présentée dans cet article, afin de reconstituer la paléoécologie et la paléogéographie. L’environnement y était froid mais pas aussi sec que dans une zone typiquement périglaciaire, plus chaude et...

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Decomposing biases in paleoenvironmental proxy data from pollen and micromammalian remains in caves: An actualistic approach

M. Weinstein-Evron, L. Weissbrod, A. Haber, S. Chaim

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology > 2013 > 377 > Complete > 86-101

Multiple forms of bias must be taken into account when interpreting paleoenvironmental proxy records in terrestrial Quaternary sequences. This fact complicates attempts to correlate records from different types of proxy data accumulated at the same site. We applied an actualistic approach to assess the correspondence between two major types of proxy data - pollen and micromammalian remains - in their...

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Ski-pistes are ecological barriers to forest small mammals

Matteo Negro, Cristina Novara, Sandro Bertolino, Antonio Rolando

European Journal of Wildlife Research > 2013 > 59 > 1 > 57-67

From the beginning of the last century, the expansion of the ski industry has significantly altered alpine environments. The aim of this research was to study the impacts of forest ski-pistes on small mammals by assessing (1) whether ski-pistes were used or avoided and (2) whether they acted as ecological barriers to local movements. Two ski-developed valleys of the Western Italian Alps were considered...

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A Ruscinian mammalian microfauna from a fissure filling near Sondershausen (Thuringia, Central Germany)

Meinolf Hellmund, Reinhard Ziegler

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology > 2012 > 131 > 1 > 77-94

The mammalian microfauna from the karstic fissure fill site Sondershausen in Thuringia is presented. It is the first record of Pliocene micromammals in Central Germany and includes 621 identified specimens of 13 species, mostly isolated teeth and only a few jaw fragments. Nearly three quarters of the specimens belong to the dormouse Glis minor. The vespertilionid bats, represented by two Myotis species,...

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Ecological change and the extinction of the Levantine Neanderthals: implications from a diachronic study of micromammals from Amud Cave, Israel

Miriam Belmaker, Erella Hovers

Quaternary Science Reviews > 2011 > 30 > 21-22 > 3196-3209

It has been hypothesized that the climate shift associated with the Heinrich 5 event (H5) and the decrease in productivity throughout MIS 4 contributed to the demise of Neanderthals from the Levant. The Middle Paleolithic stratigraphic sequence of Amud Cave (Israel) spans MIS 4 and the transition to MIS 3 and contains Neanderthal skeletal remains as well as microfaunal assemblages, often used in the...

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Predictable structure of Miocene insectivore (Lipotyphla) faunas in Western Europe along a latitudinal gradient

Marc Furió, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology > 2011 > 304 > 3-4 > 219-229

The insectivores (Grandorder Lipotyphla) have been seldom used in mammal-based paleoenvironmental inferences because this group is generally considered insufficiently represented or studied. Nevertheless, a recent compilation on the insectivore record of Western Europe has shown that this is not the case. From the insectivore occurrences themselves a major paleobiogeographical pattern seems to be...

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Microfaunal remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary results on small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy

L.C. Maul, K.T. Smith, R. Barkai, A. Barash, more

Journal of Human Evolution > 2011 > 60 > 4 > 464-480

Preliminary results of the investigation of the microfauna at the Acheulo-Yabrudian Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel, are presented. Thus far the assemblage includes ca. 10,000 bone and tooth fragments, of which 50% could be identified to the generic and some hundreds to the species level. Based on the current material, the fauna includes the following squamate reptiles: Laudakia sp.,...

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Small vertebrates (Amphibia, Squamata, Mammalia) from the late Pleistocene-Holocene of the Valdavara-1 cave (Galicia, northwestern Spain)

Juan Manuel López-García, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Carmelo Alonso, more

Geobios > 2011 > 44 > 2-3 > 253-269

The Valdavara-1 cave, located in the westernmost part of the Iberian Peninsula, is an archaeological site that has been excavated since 2007. At least two main sedimentary units have been identified: an upper one, 30 cm-thick, that has yielded many fragments of ceramic characteristic of the Recent Prehistory (with a radiocarbon age of 4.490±40years BP), and a lower one, 90 cm-thick, separated from...

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Micromammals and the formation of the Name Chamber at Sterkfontein, South Africa

Diana M. Avery, Dominic J. Stratford, Frank Sénégas

Geobios > 2010 > 43 > 4 > 379-387

The depositional history of the Name Chamber at the Sterkfontein early hominid site is complex, as is the case with most such cavities. Unravelling this history may therefore benefit from the input of less usual lines of evidence to complement baseline geological investigations. In this case, micromammalian remains from the Western Talus of the Name Chamber provide tentative evidence for the depositional...

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The archaeology and paleoenvironment of an Upper Pleistocene hyena den: An integrated approach

Paola Villa, Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi, Gloria Cuenca Bescós, Rainer Grün, more

Journal of Archaeological Science > 2010 > 37 > 5 > 919-935

Data of high resolution for reconstructions of archaeological site formation processes can be obtained only by the use of precise excavation methods and comprehensive recovery techniques using fine-mesh water screening, followed by meticulous sorting and quantitative studies of all the small organic components from the screens. These methods are generally used at human occupation sites, but are not...

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Late Miocene–Early Pliocene climatic evolution of the Granada Basin (southern Spain) deduced from the paleoecology of the micromammal associations

Antonio García-Alix, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Elvira Martín Suárez, Matthijs Freudenthal, more

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology > 2008 > 265 > 3-4 > 214-225

This paper analyses the relationship between the evolution of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene rodent and insectivore assemblages from the Granada Basin (southern Spain) and climate changes. These climatic changes, in terms of humidity and temperature fluctuations, are inferred from variations of the relative abundances of taxons with definite ecological preferences. There is a general tendency...

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Ecological and phenotypic divergence in Iberian shrews (Soricidae)

From micromammals to paleoenvironments

New biostratigraphical data for the Burdigalian Montchaibeux Member at the locality Courrendlin-Solé (Canton of Jura, Switzerland)

Geology and paleontology of Tresjuncos (Cuenca, Spain), a new diatomaceous deposit with Konservat-Lagerstätte characteristics from the European late Miocene

Badenian and Sarmatian s.str. from the Carpathian area: Taxonomical notes concerning the Hungarian and Romanian small vertebrates and report on the ruminants from the Felsőtárkány Basin

A multiproxy study of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions of an anastomosed fluvial sequence from the Çameli Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey)

The vegetational and climatic contexts of the Lower Magdalenian human burial in El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain): implications related to human behavior

Reptile and rodent parasites in raptor pellets in an archaeological context: the case of Epullán Chica (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina)

Pleistocene Micromammals and Their Predators at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

Analyse des micromammifères du site épigravettien de Mezhyrich (Ukraine)

Decomposing biases in paleoenvironmental proxy data from pollen and micromammalian remains in caves: An actualistic approach

Ski-pistes are ecological barriers to forest small mammals

A Ruscinian mammalian microfauna from a fissure filling near Sondershausen (Thuringia, Central Germany)

Ecological change and the extinction of the Levantine Neanderthals: implications from a diachronic study of micromammals from Amud Cave, Israel

Predictable structure of Miocene insectivore (Lipotyphla) faunas in Western Europe along a latitudinal gradient

Microfaunal remains at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: Preliminary results on small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy

Small vertebrates (Amphibia, Squamata, Mammalia) from the late Pleistocene-Holocene of the Valdavara-1 cave (Galicia, northwestern Spain)

Micromammals and the formation of the Name Chamber at Sterkfontein, South Africa

The archaeology and paleoenvironment of an Upper Pleistocene hyena den: An integrated approach

Late Miocene–Early Pliocene climatic evolution of the Granada Basin (southern Spain) deduced from the paleoecology of the micromammal associations

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