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Tertiary Sciuridae (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Bavaria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Black, Craig Call |
| Copyright Year | 1966 |
| Abstract | The first species of the family Sciuridae to be recognized in Tertiary deposits was named by H. von Meyer in 1846 on material from the Aquitanian Weissenau fauna of the Mainz basin. Specimens of this species, Spermophilus speciosus, were neither figured nor described and in 1884 Schlosser synonymized it with Sciurus feignouxi Pomel from the Aquitanian St. Gerand fauna. Although Sciurus feignouxi was also neither figured nor described when originally named by Pomel (1853), this species was adequately characterized by Filhol (1879) and has been referred to consistently in the literature since that date. Under the latest rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1961), S. feignouxi should certainly be taken as the valid name since (1) S. speciosus does not appear in the literature after 1884, (2) S. feignouxi has been well documented, and (3) it is the name which has been in use since 1884. In 1848 von Meyer named another species of sciurid, Sciurus bredai, from the late Vindobonian Oeningen fauna of southern Germany, but again the |
| Starting Page | 51 |
| Ending Page | 63 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Mitt-Bayer-Staatsslg-Pal-hist-Geol_6_0051-0063.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
