Finding of Molars of the Archaic Vole Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) Gregaloides (Hinton, 1923) (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Urals

T V Fadeeva; P A Kosintsev; D O Gimranov; A G Yakovlev

doi:10.1134/S0012496622040019

Finding of Molars of the Archaic Vole Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) Gregaloides (Hinton, 1923) (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Urals

Dokl Biol Sci. 2022 Aug;505(1):105-108. doi: 10.1134/S0012496622040019. Epub 2022 Aug 29.

Authors

T V Fadeeva¹, P A Kosintsev², D O Gimranov³, A G Yakovlev⁴

Affiliations

¹ Mining Institute, Perm Federal Research Center, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm, Russia.
² Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. kpa@ipae.uran.ru.
³ Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
⁴ Institute of Geology, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia.

PMID: 36038796
DOI: 10.1134/S0012496622040019

Abstract

A total of 1250 lower first molars (m1) of voles (Arvicolini) were studied from Late Pleistocene deposits (the radiocarbon dates from rodent bones: 17 100 ± 50 IGAN_AMS-9117; 13 255 ± 60 IGAN_AMS-9116) of the Imanay Cave (southern Urals, 53°02' N, 56°26' E). Of these, 24 m1 of voles of the subgenus Stenocranius were found to have broadly connected triangles T4 and T5 (Pitymys-Rhombus) at the base of the anteroconid. This structure is characteristic of lower m1 of Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregaloides (Hinton, 1923) from faunas of the second half of the Early Pleistocene and the first half of the Middle Pleistocene. Molars with such morphology have not been found so far in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene locations of Europe and the Urals.

Keywords: Arvicolini; Imanay Cave; Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregaloides; Late Pleistocene; Rodentia; Ural.

MeSH terms

Animals
Arvicolinae*
Caves
Europe
Fossils
Rodentia*