Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Dokl Biol Sci. 2022 Oct;506(1):119-127. doi: 10.1134/S0012496622050076. Epub 2022 Oct 27.
Numerous remains (incomplete skull, cranial and mandibular fragments, and isolated teeth) of a large horseshoe bat of the Rhinolophus ferrumequinum group are described from the Lower Pleistocene depo-sits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea. They are assigned to Rhinolophus macrorhinus cimmerius subsp. nov. In dental characters the new subspecies is less specialized than R. m. anomalidens Topál, 1979 from the Late Villafranchian of Central Europe, which implies the origin of the former from an earlier form morphologically close to R. m. macrorhinus Topál, 1963. The perfect preservation of the cranial structures made it possible to observe the remnants of the palatal ridges and the morphology of the nasal turbinals of R. macro-rhinus cimmerius subsp. nov.
大量的（不完整的头骨、颅和下颌骨碎片以及孤立的牙齿）大型菊头蝠属（Rhinolophus ferrumequinum 组）的遗骸是从克里米亚中部 Taurida 洞穴的下更新世沉积物中描述的。它们被归入中菊头蝠（Rhinolophus macrorhinus cimmerius）亚种。在牙齿特征方面，新亚种的特化程度低于来自欧洲中部晚更新世的 R. m. anomalidens Topál，1979，这意味着前者的起源是形态上更接近 R. m. macrorhinus Topál，1963 的早期形式。颅结构的完美保存使得观察到了中菊头蝠（Rhinolophus macrorhinus cimmerius）亚种的腭嵴残余和鼻甲骨的形态成为可能。
