The importance of Late Miocene faunal exchanges between Eastern Mediterranean areas and Central Europe |
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| Institution: | 1. Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland;2. CR2P, Paléobiodiversité et Paléoenvironnements, UMR 7207 (CNRS, MNHN, UPMC), Muséum National d''Histoire Naturelle, 8 rue Buffon, CP 38, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France;3. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria;4. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Boulevard Tzar Osvoboditel 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria;5. Geological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria |
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| Abstract: | Recent studies of mammal faunas from the Vienna and Pannonian Basins—in particular the assemblage from Kohfidisch in Burgenland (Austria)—provide new data on the faunal turnover at the Vallesian—Turolian transition. They demonstrated a considerable influence of the faunal exchanges between Greco-Iranian, Eastern European and Central European faunal provinces on renewal of mammal communities in Central Europe, particularly at MN10/MN11 boundary around 8.7 Ma. Five new comers from the Balkano-Iranian region (Gazella aff. pigrimi, ?Nisidorcas, Tragoportax gaudryi, Protoryx and Palaeoryx) coexisted in the Early Turolian of Central Europe with the Middle Miocene autochthonous (Orygotherium, Dorcatherium naui, Micromeryx, Euprox, Amphiprox anocerus and Miotragocerus pannoniae) and Late Miocene invaders from Eastern Europe (Procapreolus and Cervavitus). Dispersal events were close related to palaeoenvironmental and climatic changes. |
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