scholarly journals The Early Miocene Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Karstic Sites of Erkertshofen and Petersbuch 2 (Southern Germany)

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 412-437
Author(s):  
Valentina V. Rosina ◽  
Michael Rummel
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Southern Germany ◽  
Fossil Material ◽  
Biostratigraphic Correlation ◽  
The Rich ◽  
First Time

Abstract Fossil bats are described from the karstic deposits of the Erkertshofen 1, Erkertshofen 2 and Petersbuch 2 sites in eastern Bavaria, southern Germany (MN 4). Fossils are discussed with regard to taxonomic, stratigraphic and palaeoecologic significance. The rich fossil material represents at least 12 different bat species belonging to Megadermatidae, Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae. The syntopic appearance of four different rhinolophids is demonstrated for the first time for the Neogene bat assemblages of Europe. The remains of Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae are the most numerous, of which the proportion of typically early Miocene species Rhinolophus aff. lemanensis, R. dehmi, Hanakia agadjaniani and Miostrellus cf. petersbuchensis are significant. However, there are also remains of R. cf. delphinensis, M. cf. noctuloides, Plecotus cf. atavus and H. aff. antiquus, which are characteristic of the younger middle Miocene faunas of Central Europe. Analysis of the composition of the bat fauna has allowed biostratigraphic correlation of the studied faunas to be estimated at a number of other early Miocene localities in Europe.

scholarly journals Facies analyses, biostratigraphy and radiometric dating of the Lower-Middle Miocene succession near Zajecar (Dacian basin, eastern Serbia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljupko Rundic ◽  
Nebojsa Vasic ◽  
Miodrag Banjesevic ◽  
Dejan Prelevic ◽  
Violeta Gajic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Radiometric Dating ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Marine Transgression ◽  
Lake System ◽  
Stratigraphic Position ◽  
Sedimentary Succession ◽  
First Time ◽  
Magmatic Event

Lower-Middle Miocene sedimentary succession and the conformable/ unconformable relationships between the lacustrine-continental systems (i.e. DLS, SLS) and Badenian marine transgression represents one of the intrigue topics. Herein, we studied five exploration boreholes (eastern Serbia) and analyzed the main facies pattern, biostratigraphic characteristics of the Miocene succession, and applied the U-Pb radiometric dating of volcanic tuffs interstratified in the sedimentary series with coal layers (borehole NRKR- 17002). The obtained concordia age of 16.9 ?0.2 Ma for all the analysed zircon grains without any inherited cores indicate a single magmatic event. We definite the freshwater series originated during Early Miocene Karpatian (= late Burdigalian). Consequently, for the first time, we demonstrated that age of ? part of the Serbian Lake System (SLS) is much older than it was previous reported. In addition, sporadic findings of foraminifers, ostracods and molluscs documented the late Badenian marine transgression in eastern Serbia. If accept this fact the flooding occurred later than in the rest of Serbia (< 14.5 Ma). However, the lack of quality data and unclear stratigraphic position of some parts of the clastic succession (? Lower-Middle Badenian) makes this claim uncertain.

Earliest world record of green lizards (Lacertilia, Lacertidae) from the Lower Miocene of Central Europe

Biologia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Čerňanský
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
World Record ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Lower Miocene ◽  
Fossil Material ◽  
Ontogenetic Stages ◽  
Lacerta Viridis ◽  
Stratigraphic Range

AbstractThe earliest world record of the green lizards, Lacerta viridis group, is described from the lower Miocene of Central Europe. The fossils come from greenish, calcareous marls and limnic clayey silts of the Ottnangian zone MN 4 of the Dolnice locality near Cheb in the Czech Republic. Sediments are interpreted as marginal, riparian facies. The material consists of isolated frontal bones of two different ontogenetic stages and one isolated fragment of parietal. Their morphology is identical to that of the extant members of the L. viridis group. However, the fossil material is much older than the previously described specimens of green lizards. Therefore, this finding extends our knowledge about the evolution and stratigraphic range of the group and about composition of the early Miocene herpetofauna in central Europe.

scholarly journals The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques

PeerJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e3511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy J. Myers ◽  
Karen H. Black ◽  
Michael Archer ◽  
Suzanne J. Hand
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Carbon Isotope Excursion ◽  
Ordination Techniques ◽  
Type Change ◽  
World Heritage Area ◽  
Area North ◽  
First Time ◽  
Heritage Area

Fourteen of the best sampled Oligo-Miocene local faunas from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, north-western Queensland, Australia are analysed using classification and ordination techniques to identify potential mammalian palaeocommunities and palaeocommunitytypes. Abundance data for these faunas are used, for the first time, in conjunction with presence/absence data. An early Miocene Faunal Zone B and two middle Miocene Faunal Zone C palaeocommunities are recognised, as well as one palaeocommunity type. Change in palaeocommunity structure, between the early Miocene and middle Miocene, may be the result of significant climate change during the Miocene Carbon Isotope Excursion. The complexes of local faunas identified will allow researchers to use novel palaeocommunities in future analyses of Riversleigh’s fossil faunas. The utility of some palaeoecological multivariate indices and techniques is examined. The Dice index is found to outperform other binary similarity/distance coefficients, while the UPGMA algorithm is more useful than neighbour joining. Evidence is equivocal for the usefulness of presence/absence data compared to abundance.

Early Permian fossil vertebrate footprints and their stratigraphic setting in megacyclic sequence II red beds, Prim Point, Prince Edward Island

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Mossman ◽  
Craig H. Place
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
River Sediments ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
Red Beds ◽  
Sparse Vegetation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fossil Vertebrate ◽  
Crevasse Splay ◽  
First Time

Vertebrate trace fossils are reported for the first time from red beds near the top of megacyclic sequence II at Prim Point in southwestern Prince Edward Island. They occur as casts of tetrapod trackways. The ichnocoenose also includes a rich invertebrate ichnofauna. The trackmakers thrived in an area of sparse vegetation and occupied out-of-channel river sediments, most likely crevasse-splay deposits.Amphisauropus latus, represented by three trackways, has been previously reported from Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. It is here interpreted as the track of a cotylosaur. It occurs together with the track of Gilmoreichnus kablikae, which is either a captorhinomorph or possibly a juvenile pelycosaur. These facilitate the assignment of a late Early Permian (late Autunian) age to the strata. The third set of footprints, those of a small herbivorous pelycosaur, compare most closely with Ichniotherium willsi, known hitherto from the Keele beds (latest Stephanian) of the English Midlands.This ichnocoenose occurs in a plate-tectonically rafted segment of crust stratigraphically equivalent to the same association of ichnofauna in the English Midlands and central Europe. The community occupied piedmont-valley-flat red beds within the molasse facies of Variscan uplands.

scholarly journals Gross morphology and microstructure of type locality ossicles of Psephophorus polygonus Meyer, 1847 (Testudines, Dermochelyidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 150 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASSIMO DELFINO ◽  
TORSTEN M. SCHEYER ◽  
FRANCESCO CHESI ◽  
TAMARA FLETCHER ◽  
RICHARD GEMEL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Ventral Surface ◽  
Dive Depth ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Dermochelys Coriacea ◽  
Compact Layer ◽  
Leatherback Turtle ◽  
New Diagnosis ◽  
First Time ◽  
Growth Centres

AbstractPsephophorus polygonus Meyer, 1847, the first fossil leatherback turtle to be named, was described on the basis of shell ossicles from the middle Miocene (MN6–7/8?) of Slovakia. The whereabouts of this material is uncertain but a slab on display at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien is considered the neotype. We rediscovered further type locality ossicles in four European institutions, re-evaluated their gross morphology and described for the first time their microstructure by comparing them with Dermochelys coriacea, the only living dermochelyid turtle. The gross morphology is congruent with that already described for P. polygonus, but with two significant exceptions: the ridged ossicles of P. polygonus may have a distinctly concave ventral surface as well as a tectiform shape in cross-section. They do not develop the external keel typical of many ossicles of D. coriacea. Both ridged and non-ridged ossicles of P. polygonus are characterized by compact diploe structures with an internal cortex consisting of a coarse fibrous meshwork, whereas the proportionately thinner ossicles of D. coriacea tend to lose the internal cortex, and thus their diploe, during ontogeny. The ossicles of both P. polygonus and D. coriacea differ from those of other lineages of amniotes whose carapace is composed of polygonal ossicles or platelets, in having growth centres situated at the plate centres just interior to the external bone surface and not within the cancellous core or closer to the internal compact layer. The new diagnosis of P. polygonus allows us to preliminarily re-evaluate the taxonomy of some of the Psephophorus-like species. Despite some macro- and micromorphological differences, it seems likely that Psephophorus was as cosmopolitan as extant Dermochelys and had a broadly similar ecology, with a possible difference concerning the dive depth.

Profaning the Sacred: The Unorthodox Financial Activities of Catholic Clerics During the Napoleonic Period, 1796–1814

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-542
Author(s):  
Christopher Korten
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metals ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

This article reveals for the first time how Catholic clerics survived financially during the Napoleonic period in Italy (1796–1814). Despite the very rich, 200-year historiography on one of the Church's most critical periods, there is almost nothing on how religious clerics coped at this time. Their institutions had been despoiled by the French, often in collaboration with locals, negating traditional forms of clerical income, such as alms or rental income from non-ecclesiastical properties. This caused clerics to search out unorthodox – at times, non-canonical – ways of eking out a living, either for themselves, their religious communities or both, as such distinctions were often blurred. Masses were monetized and traded; ecclesiastical paraphernalia composed of precious metals were smelted and commodified, and relics were sold for profit. The uncovering of these controversial acts by men who in normal times were upstanding reveals the desperation of the times and provides insight into the rich discussion on determining the degrees of separation (and overlap) between the sacred and profane.

Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of Two Wells in Niger Delta

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dairo VA
Keyword(s):  
Niger Delta ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Orbulina Universa ◽  
Exploratory Wells ◽  
Stratigraphic Range

Biostratigraphic studies of foraminifera were carried out on two exploratory wells drilled in the Eastern Niger Delta to establish the age, biozonation and paleoenvironment of the foraminifera present in the strata penetrated by the wells. A total of 80 ditch cutting samples retrieved at 60ft intervals from AX-1 and AX-2 Wells at the depth of 3,600ft to 6,000ft and 4,200ft to 6500ft. respectively were subjected to micropaleontological analysis which involves picking and identification of the foraminifera present. The resulting data were loaded into the Stratabug software and interpreted. The foraminifera recovered and identified from the two wells are made up of both benthic and planktic species. The marker species, whose stratigraphic range are well established were used to describe the biozonation and these includes Heterostegina sp, Catapsydrax stainforthi, Chiloguembelina victoriana, Orbulina universa/suturalis, Praeorbulina sicana,Buliminella subfusiformis, Nonion centrosulcatum, Catapsydrax dissimilis, Globigerinoides bisphericus and Globigerinoides sicanus. Four biozones of foraminifera made up of N8, N7-N8, N6-N7 and N5-N6 were recognised based on the zonation scheme of Grandstein; with their stratigraphic age ranging from early Miocene to middle Miocene. Furthermore, the environment of deposition prevailing in the Formations penetrated by the two wells are predominantly middle neritic with similarity in their ages as observed from the correlation of the biozones from the two wells

Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: New data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad

2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
New Records ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Reef Corals ◽  
Rigorous Description ◽  
Caribbean Coral Reef ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Stratigraphic Ranges ◽  
Biotic Change

Caribbean coral reef communities were restructured by episodes of accelerated biotic change during the late Oligocene/early Miocene and the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene. However, rigorous description of the effects of rapid biotic change is problematic because preservation and exposure of coral-bearing deposits is not consistent in all stratigraphic intervals. In the Caribbean, early and middle Miocene exposures are more rare than late Miocene and Pliocene exposures. One exception is the late early to early middle Miocene Tamana Formation of Trinidad, and old and new collections from this unit were studied to determine the timing of recovery after the Oligocene/Miocene transition. A total of 41 species of zooxanthellate corals were recovered from the unit, including 21 new records. Within these assemblages, species first occurrences outnumber species last occurrences by a factor of four (31 first occurrences and eight last occurrences). The extension of the stratigraphic ranges of species previously first recorded in Pliocene sediments has reduced an apparent Pliocene pulse of origination, indicating that the Pliocene/Pleistocene transition was largely a result of accelerated extinction against a background of near-constant origination. The fact that few species last occur in the Tamana fauna indicates that the Oligocene/Miocene transition was complete by the end of the early Miocene.

scholarly journals A mid-miocene age for the Slanci formation near Belgrade (Serbia), based on a record of the primitive antelope Eotragus cf. Clavatus from Visnjica

2007 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
der van ◽  
Slobodan Knezevic ◽  
Ivan Stefanovic
Keyword(s):  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Lacustrine Sediments ◽  
Early Miocene

In a borhole at Veliko Selo near Belgrade in the Miocene lacustrine sediments Slanci, which are locally known as the Slanacka Serija, a mammal tooth was found. The age of these deposits is under discussion. The fossil is here described and attributed with a query to the primitive antelope Eotragus clavatus (GERVAIS, 1850), which is suggestive of a Early Serravallian ("upper Badenian") or Early Middle Miocene age for these deposits, whereas an Aquitalian or Eggenburgian ("Egerian" or "Eggenburgian") (Early Miocene) age can be ruled out.

scholarly journals A supplementary description of Brisaster iheringi (Spatangoida: Schizasteridae) from the Miocene of Patagonia Argentina

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Martínez ◽  
Claudia J. Del Río
Keyword(s):  
Original Description ◽  
Early Miocene ◽  
Apical Disc ◽  
Oral Side ◽  
First Time ◽  
Stratigraphic Range

Neogene Argentinean echinoids are important biostratigraphic tools. New specimens of Schizaster iheringi (de Loriol, 1902) from Early Miocene sedimentites (Chenque Formation, Patagonia, Argentina) allowed us to improve its original description, providing for the first time details of the apical disc and the oral side of  test. The species is included into the genus Brisaster: the first unquestionable documented reference to the taxon from the Neogene of Argentina. All previously reported specimens of this species are evaluated, concluding that the stratigraphic range of the genus Brisaster in Patagonia must be restricted to the Early Miocene. Rev. Biol. Trop. 65(Suppl. 1): S137-S146. Epub 2017 November 01.

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