The Open Geology Journal

2009, 3 : 64-69
Published online 2009 September 11. DOI: 10.2174/1874262900903010064
Publisher ID: TOGEOJ-3-64

Occitanomys (Rhodomys) vandami nov. sp. (Muridae, Mammalia) from the Early Pliocene/Early Ruscinian Fauna of I deli (Turkey)

Fadime Suata-Alpaslan
Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Anthrophology Department, 58140, Sivas, Turkey.

ABSTRACT

The collection of small mammals from lacustrine sediments at ....deli hill (SW of Sivas city, Central Anatolia) contains seventeen species of rodents and two species of lagomorphs. There are four Muridae: Apodemus dominans, Occitanomys (Rhodomys) vandami nov. sp., Micromys bendai, and Muridae gen. et sp. indet., six Cricetidae: Cricetus cf. lophidens, Mesocricetus cf. primitivus, Cricetulus migratorius, Allocricetus bursae, Kowalskia sp. and Cricetidae indet., two Arvicolidae: Promimomys insuliferus and Promimomys enginae, one Gerbillidae: Pseudomeriones hansi, one Spalacidae: Spalacidae gen. et sp. indet., one Gliridae: Myomimus igdeliensis, one Sciuridae: Tamias sp., one Eomyidae: Keramidomys cf. carpathicus and two Ochotonidae: Ochotona mediterranensis, and Prolagus sp.

Keywords:

deli, Early Pliocene / Ruscinian, Muridae.