The Muridae from Kastellios Hill (late Miocene, Crete, Greece) : updated taxonomy and age
van Dam, Jan (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)
Zachariasse, William (Utrecht University. Department of Earth Sciences)

Date:	2025
Abstract:	In discussions on European Neogene continental chronology, the Kastellios Hill section has played an important role because of the presence of strata with planktonic foraminifers and strata with mammalian remains. With the primary papers written in the 1970s and 1980s, the time is ripe for an update on age and taxonomy of the murid rodents from Kastellios Hill by comparing the fauna with time-equivalent southern and central European faunas. This comparison results in a partly revised faunal list consisting of the dominant Progonomys mixtus n. sp. , the less common Cricetulodon cf. C. hartenbergeri Freudenthal, 1967 and P. cathalai Schaub, 1938, and the rare P. hispanicus Michaux, 1971 and cf. Hansdebruijnia neutra (de Bruijn, 1976). Based on the updated species list and magnetic polarity data, the most probable age of the Kastellios Hill mammal localities is 9. 3-9. 1 Ma (Chron C4Ar. 1r, late Vallesian, MN10). The genus Hansdebruijnia is narrowed down to two species in an ancestor-descendant relationship: the ancestral type species H. neutra, which is restricted to southeastern Europe and Anatolia, and the descendant species H. magna (Sen, 1977), representing a new combination and including 'Occitanomys alcalai' Adrover et al. , 1988 and 'O. debruijni' (Hordijk and de Bruijn, 2009). H. magna colonized both southeastern and southwestern Europe.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	European Neogene zone ; Kastellios Hill ; Taxonomy ; Paleontology
Published in:	Journal of paleontology, (October 2025) , ISSN 1937-2337

DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2025.10158

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