Title: The dental pattern of the dormice dryomys, myomimus, microdyromys, and peridyromys
Abstract: Several dental elements in associations of the Recent dormouse Dryomys
nitedula appear to show geographical variation from Austria to Afghanistan.
The insight in this variation enables a better taxonomical evaluation of the
dental pattern and sizes in our ample material of the fossil dormice Microdyromys
(Middle Oligocene - Middle Miocene), Myomimus (Middle Miocene
- Recent) and Peridyromys (Late Oligocene - Middle Miocene) from
Europe and the Near East.
It appears that successive associations of Microdyromys and of Peridyromys
show no consistent change through time, but in Myomimus a trend
is obvious. The biostratigraphic value of the small glirids has been overestimated
in previous works.
The phylogenetic relations of the genera and subfamilies of the Gliridae
are reconstructed and the new subfamily Myomiminae is defined.
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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