List of Talpidae from the Late Miocene of Slovakia, and measurements of the lower molars of Desmanella rietscheli from Dorn-Dürkheim
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Cailleux_et_al._2023_S1.xlsx
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Abstract
Central Europe is an area of high diversity for the Talpidae (Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) during the Late Miocene. The assemblages from Slovakia (Borský Svätý Jur, Krásno, Pezinok, Šalgovce, Studienka, Triblavina) are no exception with their abundant material representing eleven species. The uropsiline Desmanella is represented by D. rietscheli and D. dubia. Desmanini fossils are attributed to Archaeodesmana vinea, Archaeodesmana dissona nov. sp., Gerhardstorchia biradicata and Gerhardstorchia sp. The scalopine Proscapanus minor and P. austriacus are well recorded in the Vallesian localities and support the emergence of P. austriacus before the MN9/10 transition. Talpini and Urotrichini are especially rare and only represented by Talpa cf. minuta and Urotrichini gen. sp. indet. Finally, we identified in the MN9 locality of Borský Svätý Jur the youngest occurrence of Desmanodon in Europe with D. cf. fluegeli. The high Late Miocene central European diversity is partly explained by the co-occurence of the competing Scalopini and Talpini during the Vallesian, indicating high-resources environments. The decline of these tribes, followed by the success of the desmans during the Turolian, appears as a consequence of regional environmental changes.
README: The Late Miocene Talpidae from the Pannonian region, Slovakia
Florentin Cailleux, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende and Peter Joniak
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r2280gbk9
The first file consists of a list of dento-gnathic elements and two humerus attributed to the family Talpidae. Each line represents a different dental element.
The ID is the identification number of the material, housed at the department of Geology and Paleontology of Comenius University, Bratislava.
Additionally is provided the locality where each material has been extracted, its identification (i=incisor, c=canine, p=premolar, m=molar, mand.=mandible, hum.=humerus; Upper elements are indicated with uppercase), its symmetry (l=left, r=right) and its generic and specific attribution.
The file gather the measurements of the specimens, the protocol of which has been described in the main document. The abbreviations are: L for length, W for width, W1 for anterior width and W2 for posterior width, Lttd for length to tuberculum teres posterior; Lpt for length to pectoral tubercle; Ltm for length to Tuber major; Wcf for width from capitulum to fossa; Mdd for minimum diaphysis diameter; Mdd ref for minimum diaphysis diameter parallel to reference line. "n/a" indicates the lack of measurements because of the fragmented nature of the specimens. All measurements are expressed in millimeters and rounded up to the nearest hundredth.
The second file is a list of the lower molars of the Talpidae Desmanella rietscheli from the german locality Dorn-Dürkheim.
The ID is the identification number of the material, housed at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg Frankfurt, Germany.
The file gather the measurements of the specimens, the protocol of which has been described in the main document. The specimens correspond to first (m1), second (m2) or third (m3) lower molar. The abbreviations are: L for lenght, W1 for anterior width and W2 for posterior width."n/a" indicates the lack of measurements because of the fragmented nature of the specimens. Similarly to the first file, all measurements are expressed in millimeters and rounded up to the nearest hundredth.