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, pl. 3, figs 4, 5, 9, pl. 4, figs 6, 10. —
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1989: 141
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, fig. 2. —
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, pl. 12, figs 1-14.
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<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDABB38AF6CFEBE162A" blockId="18.[111,647,1292,1343]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">OCCURRENCE IN THE STUDIED LAYERS. — MCC3, MCC4, MCC5, MCC7.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDABB38AF36FDC616B6" blockId="18.[113,648,1366,1443]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">REFERRED MATERIAL. — Three mandibular fragments bearing m1 and m2; 13 isolated M1; five isolated M2; two isolated M3; ten isolated m1; four isolated m2.</paragraph>
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MEASUREMENTS. — see
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB3FFDABB38AC6AFF361530" box="[113,152,1547,1573]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">M1</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDABB38AC4BFB1610BE" blockId="18.[113,647,1515,1700]" lastBlockId="18.[674,1210,786,939]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">t1 very close to or connected to t5;the t3 exhibits a short posterior spur; a small swelling of the enamel is present in most of the specimens on the anterior edge of the tooth between t1 and t2 or between t2 and t3;t3-t6-t9 are usually well aligned in an almost straight labial margin since the t6 can slightly protrude; t4-t5-t6-t7-t9-t8 are connected in a partially developed stephanodont crest since t7 is isolated from t4; t9 reduced; t12 moderately developed; five roots.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB3FFDAB9EBA9B1FD6710FF" box="[674,713,976,1002]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">M2</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDAB9ECA991FBFB179C" blockId="18.[674,1212,976,1161]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">t1 bis always present as an isolated cusplet or in a twinned complex formed by t1 and t1 bis t3 smaller than t1, usually connected to t5; t6 large, t9 reduced; t7 narrow or crest-like, isolated or weakly connected to t8; t12 present; four roots.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB3FFDAB9ECAECFFD6517DD" box="[677,715,1198,1224]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">M3</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDAB9ECAEAFFBAC1632" blockId="18.[677,1212,1198,1319]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">t large; the t3 is a small swelling of the enamel; posterior complex connected to t6; t8 large and connected to the t6; three roots.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB3FFDAB9ECAF2DFD691673" box="[677,711,1356,1382]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">m1</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDAB9ECAF0DFB1416F0" blockId="18.[674,1211,1356,1510]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">Cuspids are pointed; small tma; longitudinal spur absent; a narrow labial cingulum departs from the c1 reaching the anteroconid without developing accessory cusplets; two main roots and one central rootlet.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB3FFDAB9EBAC6AFD6A1530" box="[674,708,1547,1573]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">m2</emphasis>
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<paragraph id="FA653693FFB3FFDAB9ECAC4BFB9315B1" blockId="18.[674,1211,1547,1700]" pageId="18" pageNumber="439">Anterolabial cuspid moderately or poorly developed; longitudinal spur absent; narrow labial cingulum departing from a rather small c1; posterior heel oval and poorly developed; two roots.</paragraph>
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The average size of
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBA70AA99FE331204" box="[313,413,248,273]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys</emphasis>
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from MCC is slightly larger than that of
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBA60AB79FE7C1224" box="[297,466,279,305]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys bendai</emphasis>
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from Ptolemais 1 (
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population,
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) and Péage de Roussillon (
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Aguilar
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1989
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). However, it falls in the size range of other assemblages from
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such as Tomea Eksi 1 and 2, Prosilion-Mercurion (
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). Direct comparisons with molars of
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from the
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locality of Ptolemais 1did not reveal any relevant morphological difference suggesting that the material from MCC documented herein can be identified as
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBC4A834FE90117B" box="[141,318,596,622]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBBC1A815FDB1119B" authority="van de Weerd, 1979" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[136,543,628,654]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="steffensi">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBC1A815FEEE119B" box="[136,320,628,654]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys steffensi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBA0FA815FDB1119B" author="VAN DE WEERD A." box="[326,543,628,654]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="127 - 170" refId="ref35322" refString="VAN DE WEERD A. 1979. - Early Ruscinian rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the lignites near Ptolemais (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 82: 127 - 170." type="journal article" year="1979">van de Weerd, 1979</bibRefCitation>
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, from the Early Pliocene of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBA38A8F2FD2C11B8" author="HORDIJK K. &amp; DE BRUIJN H." box="[369,642,659,685]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="21 - 103" refId="ref32187" refString="HORDIJK K. &amp; DE BRUIJN H. 2009. - The succession of rodent faunas from the Mio / Pliocene lacustrine deposits of the Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin (Greece). Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 44: 21 - 103." type="journal article" year="2009">Hordijk &amp; de Bruijn 2009</bibRefCitation>
;
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Vasileiadou
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBBBA8D5FE8A11D8" box="[242,292,691,717]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
2012
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) displays larger dimensions even if the size range of m1 partially overlaps with that of
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBF4A892FE861019" box="[189,296,754,780]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from MCC. Direct comparisons with specimens of
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBA70A972FE031039" box="[313,429,786,812]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. steffensi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the
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locality of Kardia, evidenced a great similarity with
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.
</emphasis>
However, some small morphological differences can be detected, including the presence of a t1 bis in some M1 and the better development of the posterior spurs of t
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M1 of
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB949A9D0FDDA10DE" box="[512,628,945,971]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. steffensi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA653693FFB2FFDBBBC1A9B1FE2317BD" blockId="19.[111,648,216,1699]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">
The Late Miocene to Early Pliocene
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB968A9B0FF6F171F" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys paricioi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBB8CA991FD9C171F" author="MEIN P. &amp; MOISSENET E. &amp; ADROVER R." box="[197,562,1008,1034]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="2780 - 2783" refId="ref33181" refString="MEIN P., MOISSENET E. &amp; ADROVER R. 1983. - L'extension et l'age des formations continentales pliocenes du fosse de Teruel (Espagne). Comptes rendus des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris 270: 2780 - 2783." type="journal article" year="1983">Mein, Moissenet &amp; Adrover, 1983</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
, known in
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(
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Mein
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBA6BAE71FEF6173C" box="[290,344,1039,1065]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
1983
</bibRefCitation>
;
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Adrover
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB940AE71FD91173C" box="[521,575,1039,1065]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
1988
</bibRefCitation>
; García-Alix
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBB2AE51FE9D175C" box="[251,307,1071,1097]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
2008b) and
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(
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB96EAE4EFEB7177C" author="VASILEIADOU K. V. &amp; KOUFOS G. D. &amp; SYRIDES G. E." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="549 - 562" refId="ref35584" refString="VASILEIADOU K. V., KOUFOS G. D. &amp; SYRIDES G. E. 2003. - Silata, a new locality with micromammals from the Miocene / Pliocene boundary of the Chalkidiki peninsula, Macedonia, Greece. Deinsea 10: 549 - 562." type="journal article" year="2003">
Vasileiadou
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBEAAE31FF79177C" box="[163,215,1103,1129]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
2003
</bibRefCitation>
), can be easily distinguished from
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBB38AE0EFF72179D" box="[113,220,1134,1160]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by its smaller size, less-developed t7 and less frequent t1 bis in M2.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA653693FFB2FFDBBBC1AECEFE981692" blockId="19.[111,648,216,1699]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBBC1AECEFD2817DC" authority="Storch &amp; Dahlmann, 1995" authorityName="Storch &amp; Dahlmann" authorityYear="1995" box="[136,646,1198,1225]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cingulatus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBBC1AECEFEF517DD" box="[136,347,1198,1224]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys cingulatus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBA2BAECFFD2817DC" author="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T." box="[354,646,1198,1225]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="121 - 132" refId="ref34935" refString="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T. 1995. - 10. Murinae (Rodentia, Mammalia), in SCHMIDT- KITTLER N. (ed.), The vertebrate locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at theTurolian-Ruscinian boundary (Neogene). Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 28: 121 - 132." type="journal article" year="1995">Storch &amp; Dahlmann, 1995</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
from Maramena (Miocene/Pliocene boundary of
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) is similar in size to
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBADBAE8FFE501612" box="[402,510,1261,1287]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from MCC, but it exhibits less roots in M1 (three roots plus an extremely rare incipient fourth central rootlet), a reduced t7 and lacks the t1 bis in M2 (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB956AF2DFE871692" author="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="121 - 132" refId="ref34935" refString="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T. 1995. - 10. Murinae (Rodentia, Mammalia), in SCHMIDT- KITTLER N. (ed.), The vertebrate locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at theTurolian-Ruscinian boundary (Neogene). Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 28: 121 - 132." type="journal article" year="1995">Storch &amp; Dahlmann 1995</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA653693FFB2FFDBBBC1AFEDFCF412A5" blockId="19.[111,648,216,1699]" lastBlockId="19.[674,1212,216,1700]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">
The molars of
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBA62AFEDFE4016B3" box="[299,494,1420,1446]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys chalceus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBABFAFEDFD2B16B3" author="STORCH G." box="[502,645,1420,1446]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="401 - 431" refId="ref34895" refString="STORCH G. 1987. - The Neogene mammalian faunas of Ertemte and Harr Obo in inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol), China. 7. Muridae (Rodentia). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 67: 401 - 431." type="journal article" year="1987">Storch, 1987</bibRefCitation>
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from the Late Miocene of Mongolia are evidently smaller than the material from MCC (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBABEAFAAFDD516F0" author="STORCH G." box="[503,635,1483,1509]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="401 - 431" refId="ref34895" refString="STORCH G. 1987. - The Neogene mammalian faunas of Ertemte and Harr Obo in inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol), China. 7. Muridae (Rodentia). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 67: 401 - 431." type="journal article" year="1987">Storch 1987</bibRefCitation>
). Moreover, the M1 lacks a t7 and it usually displays a minor number of roots in M1 since a fifth rootlet is visible only in 11 out of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB974AC4BFF031571" author="STORCH G." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="401 - 431" refId="ref34895" refString="STORCH G. 1987. - The Neogene mammalian faunas of Ertemte and Harr Obo in inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol), China. 7. Muridae (Rodentia). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 67: 401 - 431." type="journal article" year="1987">Storch 1987</bibRefCitation>
). The earliest Pliocene
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBAEEAC2AFD291571" box="[423,647,1610,1636]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys kozaniensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBB3BAC0BFEF81591" author="VAN DE WEERD A." box="[114,342,1641,1668]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="127 - 170" refId="ref35322" refString="VAN DE WEERD A. 1979. - Early Ruscinian rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the lignites near Ptolemais (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 82: 127 - 170." type="journal article" year="1979">van de Weerd, 1979</bibRefCitation>
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, from Ptolemais 3 (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB973AC0BFF5615B6" author="VAN DE WEERD A." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="127 - 170" refId="ref35322" refString="VAN DE WEERD A. 1979. - Early Ruscinian rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the lignites near Ptolemais (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 82: 127 - 170." type="journal article" year="1979">van de Weerd 1979</bibRefCitation>
) and the Mongolian locality of Bilike (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB9E2AAB9FC2213E7" author="QIU Z. - D. &amp; STORCH G." box="[683,908,216,242]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="173 - 229" refId="ref34060" refString="QIU Z. - D. &amp; STORCH G. 2000. - The Early Pliocene micromammalian fauna of Bilike, Inner Mongolia, China (Mammalia: Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 80: 173 - 229." type="journal article" year="2000">Qiu &amp; Storch 2000</bibRefCitation>
), differs from
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBF62AAB8FB3713E7" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[1067,1177,216,242]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bendai">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBF62AAB8FB3713E7" box="[1067,1177,216,242]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having narrower upper molars. From a morphological point of view,
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB8C1AB79FB8C1224" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[904,1058,279,305]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kozaniensis">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB8C1AB79FB8C1224" box="[904,1058,279,305]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. kozaniensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
displays more posterior and slightly more developed t7 especially in the M2, more developed t12 and a deep inflexion in the outline of the M1 between t1 and t2 (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBFD9AB17FCE312A5" author="VAN DE WEERD A." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="127 - 170" refId="ref35322" refString="VAN DE WEERD A. 1979. - Early Ruscinian rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the lignites near Ptolemais (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 82: 127 - 170." type="journal article" year="1979">van de Weerd 1979</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA653693FFB2FFDBB9F2ABD7FBFB113A" blockId="19.[674,1212,216,1700]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB9F2ABD7FC8712DA" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[699,809,437,463]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bendai">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9F2ABD7FC8712DA" box="[699,809,437,463]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is reported in the latest Miocene-to- Early Pliocene of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB8F0ABB4FBCC12FA" author="DE BRUIJN H." box="[953,1122,469,495]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="189 - 195" refId="ref30689" refString="DE BRUIJN H. 1989. - Smaller mammals from the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene of the Strimon Basin, Greece. Part 1. Rodentia and Lagomorpha. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28: 189 - 195." type="journal article" year="1989">de Bruijn 1989</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBF25ABB4FD71111A" author="KOUFOS G. D." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="183 - 214" refId="ref32396" refString="KOUFOS G. D. 2006. - The Neogene mammal localities of Greece: faunas, chronology and biostratigraphy. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 41: 183 - 214." type="journal article" year="2006">Koufos 2006</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB9A5AB94FBBB111A" author="HORDIJK K. &amp; DE BRUIJN H." box="[748,1045,501,527]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="21 - 103" refId="ref32187" refString="HORDIJK K. &amp; DE BRUIJN H. 2009. - The succession of rodent faunas from the Mio / Pliocene lacustrine deposits of the Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin (Greece). Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 44: 21 - 103." type="journal article" year="2009">Hordijk &amp; de Bruijn 2009</bibRefCitation>
) and the Early Pliocene of
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(
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB832A874FBE7113A" author="AGUILAR J. - P. &amp; CLAUZON G. &amp; MICHAUX J." box="[891,1097,533,559]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="137 - 145" refId="ref28791" refString="AGUILAR J. - P., CLAUZON G. &amp; MICHAUX J. 1989. - La limite Mio-Pliocene dans le Sud de la France d'apres les faunes de rongeurs: etat de la question et remarques sur les datations a l'aide des rongeurs. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28: 137 - 145." type="journal article" year="1989">
Aguilar
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB89AA874FBA8113A" box="[979,1030,533,559]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
1989
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9F2A854FCD1115B" box="[699,895,565,590]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys minutus</emphasis>
(Pallas, 1771)
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, the Eurasian Harvest Mouse,is the only extant species of the genus
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB986A815FC9C1198" authorityName="Dehne" authorityYear="1841" box="[719,818,628,653]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB986A815FC9C1198" box="[719,818,628,653]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys</emphasis>
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. Towards the end of the Miocene and during the Pliocene this genus exhibited a greater diversity with a higher number of species whose phylogenetic relationships are still not resolved. As a matter of fact, even if some species such as
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB9EFA972FC801039" authorityName="Storch &amp; Dahlmann" authorityYear="1995" box="[678,814,786,812]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cingulatus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9EFA972FC801039" box="[678,814,786,812]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. cingulatus</emphasis>
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from Greeceand
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB896A972FBFC1039" authorityName="Storch" authorityYear="1987" box="[991,1106,786,812]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chalceus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB896A972FBFC1039" box="[991,1106,786,812]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. chalceus</emphasis>
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from Asia exhibit less advanced morphological features (e.g., reduced number of roots, t7 absent or reduced), their presence in latest Miocene/earliest Pliocene localities of Europe and Asia indicates that they are contemporary to other species of this genus, namely
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB9B1A9B0FCCA10FF" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[760,868,976,1002]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bendai">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9B1A9B0FCCA10FF" box="[760,868,976,1002]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB839A9B0FC4B10FF" authorityName="Mein, Moissenet &amp; Adrover" authorityYear="1983" box="[880,997,977,1002]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paricioi">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB839A9B0FC4B10FF" box="[880,997,977,1002]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. paricioi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which, on the contrary, display more advanced morphological traits (e.g., higher number of roots and well developed t7) (
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). In summary, as already evidenced by some authors (van de Wteerd 1979;
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB9A2AE0FFBBC179C" author="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T." box="[747,1042,1134,1161]" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="121 - 132" refId="ref34935" refString="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T. 1995. - 10. Murinae (Rodentia, Mammalia), in SCHMIDT- KITTLER N. (ed.), The vertebrate locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at theTurolian-Ruscinian boundary (Neogene). Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 28: 121 - 132." type="journal article" year="1995">Storch &amp; Dahlmann 1995</bibRefCitation>
;
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), it is extremely problematic to define a single lineage leading to the extant
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBF7FAECEFB1C17DD" baseAuthorityName="Pallas" baseAuthorityYear="1771" box="[1078,1202,1199,1224]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="minutus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBF7FAECEFB1C17DD" box="[1078,1202,1199,1224]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. minutus</emphasis>
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. The evolutionary lineage
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB8FEAEAFFCE81612" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB8FEAEAFFB9E17F2" authorityName="Storch" authorityYear="1987" box="[951,1072,1229,1255]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="chalceus">M. chalceus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBF77AEAFFD6C1612" authorityName="Storch &amp; Dahlmann" authorityYear="1995" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cingulatus">M. cingulatus</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB999AE8FFCE81612" authorityName="Mein, Moissenet &amp; Adrover" authorityYear="1983" box="[720,838,1262,1287]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paricioi">M. paricioi</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
proposed by
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBB890AE8CFD40163D" author="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="121 - 132" refId="ref34935" refString="STORCH G. &amp; DAHLMANN T. 1995. - 10. Murinae (Rodentia, Mammalia), in SCHMIDT- KITTLER N. (ed.), The vertebrate locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at theTurolian-Ruscinian boundary (Neogene). Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 28: 121 - 132." type="journal article" year="1995">Storch &amp; Dahlmann (1995)</bibRefCitation>
seems to be not valid because
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBF0AAF6FFB141632" authorityName="Mein, Moissenet &amp; Adrover" authorityYear="1983" box="[1091,1210,1294,1319]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="paricioi">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBF0AAF6FFB141632" box="[1091,1210,1294,1319]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. paricioi</emphasis>
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appeared in
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almost contemporaneously to the appearance in
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of
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB8EAAF2CFC851692" authority="(Garcia-Alix et al. 2008 b)" baseAuthorityName="Garcia-Alix" baseAuthorityYear="2008" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="cingulatus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB8EAAF2CFB811673" box="[931,1071,1356,1382]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. cingulatus</emphasis>
(García-Alix
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9ECAF0CFD7B1693" box="[677,725,1388,1414]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
2008b)
</taxonomicName>
.
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB87AAF0CFC481693" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[819,998,1388,1414]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="steffensi">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB87AAF0CFC481693" box="[819,998,1388,1414]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys steffensi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is reported from the Pliocene deposits of the Ptolemais basin (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB2FFDBBF0FAFEDFCEA16D0" author="HORDIJK K. &amp; DE BRUIJN H." pageId="19" pageNumber="440" pagination="21 - 103" refId="ref32187" refString="HORDIJK K. &amp; DE BRUIJN H. 2009. - The succession of rodent faunas from the Mio / Pliocene lacustrine deposits of the Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin (Greece). Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 44: 21 - 103." type="journal article" year="2009">Hordijk &amp; de Bruijn 2009</bibRefCitation>
) and shows a strong similarity with
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB9EAAFADFCA216F0" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[675,780,1483,1509]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="bendai">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9EAAFADFCA216F0" box="[675,780,1483,1509]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. bendai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but it differs in its larger size and in some morphological details. In our opinion,
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBBF0FAF8AFB141510" authorityName="van de Weerd" authorityYear="1979" box="[1094,1210,1515,1541]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="steffensi">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBBF0FAF8AFB141510" box="[1094,1210,1515,1541]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">M. steffensi</emphasis>
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probably should be regarded as an endemic form within the Ptolemais basin.
</paragraph>
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Some other species appeared subsequently, such as
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB2FFDBB9F7AC0BFBEF15B6" authority="Minwer-Barakat, Garcia-Alix, Martin-Suarez &amp; Freudenthal, 2008" authorityName="Minwer-Barakat, Garcia-Alix, Martin-Suarez &amp; Freudenthal" authorityYear="2008" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="19" pageNumber="440" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="caesaris">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB2FFDBB9F7AC0BFCDA1596" box="[702,884,1642,1667]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="440">Micromys caesaris</emphasis>
Minwer-Barakat, García-Alix, Martín-Suárez &amp; Freudenthal, 2008
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, a form of small size reported in the Late Pliocene of the Guadix Basin,
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(Minwer-Barakat
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB5FFDCB958AA99FDED1204" box="[529,579,247,273]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="441">et al.</emphasis>
2008) and
<taxonomicName id="3DDA4D10FFB5FFDCBBECAB79FE0F1224" box="[165,417,280,305]" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" genus="Micromys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageId="20" pageNumber="441" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="praeminutus">
<emphasis id="C8AEEA81FFB5FFDCBBECAB79FE0F1224" box="[165,417,280,305]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="441">Micromys praeminutus</emphasis>
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, known from some Pliocene localities of Europe (
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB5FFDCBA9BAB56FD2E1244" author="MICHAUX J." box="[466,640,311,337]" pageId="20" pageNumber="441" pagination="1 - 25" refId="ref33258" refString="MICHAUX J. 1969. - Muridae (Rodentia) du Pliocene superieur d'Espagne et du Midi de la France. Palaeovertebrata 3: 1 - 25." type="journal article" year="1969">Michaux 1969</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="9E4B4B62FFB5FFDCBB38AB36FEE11264" author="VAN DE WEERD A." box="[113,335,342,369]" pageId="20" pageNumber="441" pagination="127 - 170" refId="ref35322" refString="VAN DE WEERD A. 1979. - Early Ruscinian rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) from the lignites near Ptolemais (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 82: 127 - 170." type="journal article" year="1979">van de Weerd 1979</bibRefCitation>
).
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