2022/10/01 by А. В. Лопатин · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Marine and environmental studies #Evolution and Paleontology Studies
paper · doi:10.1134/s0012496622050076
openalex publication_date 2022/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
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 Lower Pleistocene depo-sits of the Taurida cave in the central Crimea. They are assigned to Rhinolophus macrorhinus cimmerius subsp. nov. In dental characters the new subspecies is less specialized than R. m. anomalidens Topál, 1979 from the Late Villafranchian of Central Europe, which implies the origin of the former from an earlier form morphologically close to R. m. macrorhinus Topál, 1963. The perfect preservation of the cranial structures made it possible to observe the remnants of the palatal ridges and the morphology of the nasal turbinals of R. macro-rhinus cimmerius subsp. nov.