Genus apodemus in the pleistocene of central Europe: When did the extant taxa appear?(

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F17%3A10391528" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/17:10391528 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2017-0024" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2017-0024</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/if-2017-0024" target="_blank" >10.1515/if-2017-0024</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Genus apodemus in the pleistocene of central Europe: When did the extant taxa appear?(

Original language description

The extant species of the genus Apodemus represent the most common small mammals of Central Europe. Unfortunately, their phylogenetic past is only poorly known. With the aid of detailed biometric analyses we tried to identify the fi rst appearance of the phenotypic patterns characterizing the extant populations. We examined dental material of Apodemus from 53 community samples from the territory of the Czech Republic and Slovakia dated from the early Villanyian (MN 16/17) to the late Middle Pleistocene (Q 3) with particular respect to their correspondence with the morphometric characteristics of the extant species. While the Toringian (Q 3) interglacial samples invariably include forms identical with the extant taxa A. fl avicollis, A. sylvaticus and supposedly A. uralensis (including the items corresponding to A. maastrichtiensis), the samples of Early Pleistocene age (MN 17 - Q 2) exhibited clear differences in the variation pattern which results in questioning the possibility of their co-identifi cation with the respective extant species. In most instances they varied within the limits in resembling A. sylvaticus but exceeded its variation ranges in some non-metric characters. Regarding serious doubts on real taxonomic status of other named fossil species we propose to denote these Plio-Pleistocene sylvaticus-like phenotypes provisionally with the prior name A. atavus HELLER, 1936. (C) 2017, National Museum Prague. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-08169S" target="_blank" >GA13-08169S: Prior to the Neolithic: Contextual Analysis of Environmental Dynamics During Early Postglacial Transformation of Central Europe.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Fossil Imprint

ISSN

2533-4050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

73

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

460-481

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85042645875