Quibas-Sima: A unique 1 ma-old vertebrate succession in southern Iberian Peninsula

P Piñero, J Agustí, C Laborda, M Duval, J Zhao… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the identification of the Jaramillo geomagnetic subchron, the late Early Pleistocene
vertebrate succession of the Quibas-Sima section (Quibas karstic complex, southern Spain) …

Quaternary terrestrial microvertebrates from mediterranean northwestern Africa: State-of-the-art focused on recent multidisciplinary studies

E Stoetzel, A Lalis, V Nicolas, S Aulagnier… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Northwestern Africa is today characterized by high geographical, climatic and ecological
diversity; it is recognized as a hotspot of biodiversity and a major area for both human and …

Late Cenozoic micromammal biochronology of northwestern Africa

E Stoetzel - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2013 - Elsevier
This synthesis aims to integrate former, recent and unpublished data on fossil
micromammals (Rodentia, Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Chiroptera) from Moroccan …

A new species of the Miniopterus schreibersii species complex (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from the Maghreb Region, North Africa

SJ Puechmaille, B Allegrini, P Benda, K Gürün… - Zootaxa, 2014 - biotaxa.org
We used an integrative approach combining cranio-dental characters, mitochondrial and
nuclear data and acoustic data to show the presence in the genus Miniopterus of a cryptic …

33 million year old Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats

GF Gunnell, R Smith, T Smith - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The bat genus Myotis is represented by 120+ living species and 40+ extinct species and is
found on every continent except Antarctica. The time of divergence of Myotis has been …

A relict tropical forest bat assemblage from the early Miocene of the Ribesalbes-Alcora Basin (Castelló, Spain)

VD Crespo, P Sevilla, P Montoya… - … Science Transactions of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present the bat assemblage from the early Miocene (MN4, 16.9–15.95 MY) basin of
Ribesalbes-Alcora, which has yielded the remains of ten chiropteran taxa. Bat assemblages …

Mammalian faunas from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Casablanca (Morocco)

D Geraads, JP Raynal, FZ Sbihi-Alaoui - Historical Biology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
In the frame of the Franco–Moroccan 'Programme Casablanca', several important new Late
Miocene to Late Pleistocene mammalian localities have been excavated in the Casablanca …

Early Pleistocene Serotine Bat Eptesicus praeglacialis (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) from the Taurida Cave in Crimea

AV Lopatin - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2023 - Springer
The cranial and mandibular remains of a large serotine bat Eptesicus praeglacialis Kormos,
1930 are described from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in the central …

Early Pleistocene Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus macrorhinus cimmerius subsp. nov. (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) from the Taurida Cave in Crimea

AV Lopatin - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Numerous remains (incomplete skull, cranial and mandibular fragments, and isolated teeth)
of a large horseshoe bat of the Rhinolophus ferrumequinum group are described from the …

Rhinolophus mehelyi scythotauricus subsp. nov. (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) from the Lower Pleistocene of the Taurida Cave in Crimea

AV Lopatin - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2023 - Springer
A new extinct subspecies of the Mehely's horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus mehelyi
scythotauricus subsp. nov., is described on the base of an incomplete skull from the Lower …