Early Miocene small mammal remains (Metatheria, Chiroptera, Eulipotyphla) from Mokrá-Quarry fissures (South Moravia, Czech Republic) – preliminary results
Article PDFEarly Miocene small mammal remains (Metatheria, Chiroptera, Eulipotyphla) from Mokrá-Quarry fissures (South Moravia, Czech Republic) – preliminary results
Mokrá-Quarry (South Moravia, Czech Republic) constitutes a unique fossil site with an extraordinary diversity of vertebrate remains. Most of the research on Mokrá-Quarry localities has focused on herpe – to fauna and, in most recent years, also in rodent remains. However, non-rodent small mammals have not been studied in detail. In this work, preliminary results of the small mammal assemblage belonging to the orders Chiroptera and Eulipotyphla, together with remains of Amphiperatherium from Mokrá-Quarry fissures are presented for the first time. The paleoecology inferred from these taxa agrees with previous studies, depicting Mokrá-Quarry as a karst landscape with open steppes, patches of woodland and close water bodies.
Isaac Bonilla-Salomón, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Science, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova Str. 6, SK-84215 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, e-mail: salomon1@uniba.sk
Stanislav Čermák, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 269, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Ivan Horáček, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic
Martin Ivanov, Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Geological Sciences, Kotlářská 267/2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic
Martin Sabol, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Science, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova Str. 6, SK-84215 Bratislava, Slovak Republic