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

被引：6

作者：

Lopatin A.V. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

来源：

Doklady Biological Sciences | 2023年 / 508卷 / 1期

基金：

俄罗斯科学基金会;

关键词：

age-related variability; bats; cranial morphology; Crimea; Eptesicus praeglacialis; hibernation; Pleistocene; tooth marks; tooth wear;

D O I：

10.1134/S0012496622060102

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摘要：

Abstract: 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 Crimea. This is the first finding of the skull material of E. praeglacialis and the first record of the species in Crimea. Judging by the tooth wear stages, the remains of both young and adult specimens are present in the taphocenosis. The small mammal tooth marks on the bones (caused by eating the remnants of soft tissues) in the absence of signs of digestion, characterizing materials from the predatory bird pellets, indicate that the taphocenosis includes the remains of E. praeglacialis individuals that used the cave as a shelter and died there. This corresponds to the idea of appearance of hibernation in caves as a climatically determined ecological adaptation in some European forest-dwelling bats (including Eptesicus) at the Pliocene–Pleistocene transition. © 2023, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

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