Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Dokl Biol Sci. 2023 Apr;509(1):95-99. doi: 10.1134/S0012496623700254. Epub 2023 May 19.
A new extinct subspecies of the Mehely's horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus mehelyi scythotauricus subsp. nov., is described on the base of an incomplete skull from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea. It is the largest member of the R. euryale group. In terms of the evolutionary level, it is intermediate between Plio-Pleistocene R. mehelyi birzebbugensis Storch, 1974 and recent members of the species, but its large size and relatively narrow upper molars may indicate belonging to a separate phylogenetic lineage within R. mehelyi Matschie, 1901. R. mehelyi scythotauricus subsp. nov. is the first fossil record of the species in the Crimea; it is also one of the northernmost finds of R. mehelyi.
一种新灭绝的巴氏亚种马蹄蝠，即梅氏菊头蝠，被描述为克里米亚中部 Taurida 洞穴下部更新世沉积物中一个不完整头骨的基础上。它是 R. euryale 组中最大的成员。在进化水平上，它介于上新世-更新世的 R. mehelyi birzebbugensis Storch, 1974 和最近的物种成员之间，但它的体型较大和相对较窄的上臼齿可能表明它属于 R. mehelyi Matschie, 1901 内的一个单独的系统发育谱系。R. mehelyi scythotauricus subsp. nov. 是该物种在克里米亚的第一个化石记录；它也是 R. mehelyi 最北的发现之一。
