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Soricidae Fischer von Waldheim 1817

  • 1. , Lukács MÉSZÁROS & MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Palaeontology, H- 1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2, Hungary. E-mail: pinety @ gmail. com
  • 2. , János HÍR & Department of Palaeontology, Eötvös Loránd University, H- 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1 / C, Hungary. E-mail: lgy. meszaros @ gmail. com
  • 3. & Zoltán SZENTESI & Municipal Museum, H- 3060 Pásztó, Múzeum tér 5, Hungary. E-mail: hirjanos @ gmail. com

Description

Family Soricidae Fischer von Waldheim, 1817

Eight Soricidae species were determined in the Beremend 14 fossil assemblage (Table 1). Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos, 1934 is ranged to subfamily Crocidurinae, while other six forms: Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766; Sorex (Drepanosorex) savini Hinton, 1911; Sorex runtonensis Hinton, 1911; Beremendia fissidens (Petényi, 1864); Petenyia hungarica Kormos, 1934, and Asoriculus gibberodon (Petényi, 1864) belong to subfamily Soricinae. One form could not be exactly determined, because it shows both Crocidurinae and Soricinae characters, so it was defined as Soricidae gen. et sp. indet.

Abbreviations used in the Soricidae descriptions: I = incisor, A = antemolar, P =premolar,M=molar, Mx =upper tooth,M x =lower tooth,L=length, W=width, H = height, BL = buccal length, LL = lingual length, AW = anterior width, PW = posterior width, n = number of specimens, min. = minimum, max. = maximum, sd. = standard deviation, MNI = minimum number of individuals. Calculation of MNI is based on the number of identical, ipsilateral teeth. Morphological terms are used after REUMER (1984). Measurements are given in mm.

Remarks – In the relative groups of the shrews several Erinaceomorpha and Talpidae species with more than 250 specimens occurred in the Beremend 14 sample, but they are not discussed in this paper.

Notes

Published as part of Pazonyi, Piroska, Mészáros, Lukács, Hír, János & Mta-Mtm-Elte, Zoltán Szentesi, 2016, The lowermost Pleistocene rodent and soricid (Mammalia) fauna from Beremend 14 locality (South Hungary) and its biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications, pp. 99-134 in Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33 on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.17111/FragmPalHung.2016.33.99, http://zenodo.org/record/15627205

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References

  • HINTON M. A. C. 1911: I. The British Fossil Shrews. - Geological Magazine (Decade V) 8 (12): 529-539.
  • PETENYI S. J. 1864: Hatrahagyott munkai. [Posthumous works.] - Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, Pest, 130 pp.
  • REUMER J. W. F. 1984: Ruscinian and early Pleistocene Soricidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Tegelen (The Netherlands) and Hungary. - Scripta Geologica 73: 1-173.