2021/11/01 by A. V. Lopatin, A. S. Tesakov · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones #Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
paper · doi:10.1134/s0012496621060077
openalex publication_date 2021/11/01 · openalex created_date 2021/12/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The remains of the white-toothed shrew Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos, 1934 (one skull fragment with almost complete dentition, the fragmental rostral part of a skull with the left upper incisor, a maxillary fragment, five mandibular fragments and an isolated upper incisor) from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea (Belogorsk district, Zuya village) are described. This earliest European species of the genus Crocidura was quite common in the Early Pleistocene of Central Europe and the Mediterranean; for the first time, it is described from Crimea and the entire Eastern Europe.