Deperetomys (Rodentia, Muridae) from the Oligocene of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Deperetomys (Rodentia, Muridae) from the Oligocene of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Zoran Marković 1 & Hans de Bruijn 2,3 & Andrew A. van de Weerd 2,3
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Wilma Wessels 2,3
Received: 13 July 2018 / Revised: 31 October 2018 / Accepted: 9 May 2019 # The Author(s) 2019
Abstract Two new late Oligocene species of Deperetomys: D. calefactus and D. saltensis, are described and the affinities between the various species are discussed. The new records extend the stratigraphic range of Deperetomys into the Oligocene, making it the first European Miocene murid that can be traced across the “Cricetid vacuum”. A single M1 of a large early Oligocene murid that may represent the oldest record of Deperetomys is described. The classification problems that arise as a result of the fast increase of information of the Paleogene Muridae from Asia and the Middle East are addressed and the need to recognise and define clades above the genus level is demonstrated. Our conclusion is that the Deperetomys clade contains at least three different evolutionary lineages. Keywords Muridae . Deperetomys . Oligocene . Balkans . Systematics . New species
Introduction The first teeth of a large Oligocene cricetine from the Balkans were collected by one of us (ZM) in 1997 from the coal used for heating the Natural History Museum in Belgrade. This remarkable find, which could be traced to the coal mine of Bugotovo Selo near Ugljevik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, triggered the collaboration of the vertebrate palaeontology This article is registered in Zoobank under: urn:lsid:zoobank. org:pub:4D0F43BD-C816-47EA-8D78-1016E068D908 * Zoran Marković [email protected] Hans de Bruijn [email protected] Andrew A. van de Weerd [email protected] Wilma Wessels [email protected] 1
Natural History Museum in Belgrade, Njegoševa 51, Belgrade 11000, Serbia
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Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8A, 3584 CB Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Department of Earth Sciences, P.O. Box 80115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands
sections of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade and the Department of Earth Sciences of Utrecht University. The sites that yielded the material that will be described and discussed resulted from collecting campaigns in Ugljevik in 2004 and 2005, Banovići in 2007 and 2008 (sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Paragovo in 2016 and 2017 and Raljin in 2015 and 2017 (sites in Serbia). The Bugotovo Selo mine near Ugljevik is an open pit in Bosnia and Herzegovina with late Oligocene coals. The majority of the material has been collected from the main coal seam in 2005 (see below). Banovići (Turija) is an open pit mine in Bosnia and Herzegovina with latest Oligocene coals. Its magnetostratigraphy and palaeontology was described in de Leeuw et al. (2011) and de Bruijn et al. (2013). The site and geological setting of Paragovo (late Oligocene, Serbia) and Ugljevik will be described in the near future. Raljin is an early Oligocene site in SE Serbia and has been described by de Bruijn et al. (2018). The location of these
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