de Bruijn Hans, Marković Zoran, Wessels Wilma, Milivojević Miloš, van de Weerd Andrew A
1Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584CS Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Natural History Museum in Belgrade, Njegoševa 51, Belgrade, 11000 Serbia.
Paleobiodivers Paleoenviron. 2018;98(3):441-458. doi: 10.1007/s12549-017-0305-0. Epub 2017 Nov 10.
Seven new rodent faunas are described from the Pčinja and Babušnica-Koritnica basins of south-east Serbia. The geology of the Tertiary deposits in the Pčinja and Koritnica-Babušnica basins of south-east Serbia is briefly reviewed. The fossil content of the new vertebrate localities is listed, and an inventory of the rodent associations is presented. The rodent associations are late Eocene-early Oligocene in age, interpreted on biostratigraphical grounds. These are the first rodent faunas of that age from the Balkan area, an important palaeogeographic location between Europe and Asia. The Muridae, with the subfamilies Pseudocricetodontinae, Paracricetodontinae, Pappocricetodontinae, Melissiodontinae and ?Spalacinae, are dominant with eight genera, four of which are new. The diversity of the Melissiodontinae and Paracricetodontinae in the faunas suggests that these subfamilies originated in this region. The bi-lophodont cheek teeth occurring in the Oligocene assemblages are identified as the first record of the Diatomyidae outside of Asia. In light of the large amount of new data, the palaeogeographic setting and faunal turnover of the Eocene-Oligocene is discussed.
本文描述了塞尔维亚东南部皮钦贾河和巴布什尼察-科里特尼察河流域的七种新啮齿动物群。简要回顾了塞尔维亚东南部皮钦贾河和科里特尼察-巴布什尼察河流域第三纪沉积物的地质情况。列出了新脊椎动物产地的化石内容，并给出了啮齿动物组合的清单。根据生物地层学依据，这些啮齿动物组合的年代为始新世晚期-渐新世早期。它们是巴尔干地区该年代的首批啮齿动物群，巴尔干地区是欧洲和亚洲之间一个重要的古地理位置。鼠科动物，包括伪仓鼠亚科、副仓鼠亚科、帕波仓鼠亚科、蜜鼠亚科和？竹鼠亚科，占主导地位，有八个属，其中四个属是新属。动物群中蜜鼠亚科和副仓鼠亚科的多样性表明这些亚科起源于该地区。渐新世组合中出现的双脊型颊齿被确定为硅藻鼠科在亚洲以外地区的首次记录。鉴于大量新数据，讨论了始新世-渐新世的古地理背景和动物群更替情况。
