A new giant cricetine from the basal Pliocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean): biostratigraphic nexus with continental mammal zones

References

• Agustí J. 1986. Dental evolution in the endemic glirids of the western Mediterranean islands. Mém Mus Hist Nat Paris. 53(sér C):227–232.
   Google Scholar
• Agustí J, Bover P, Alcover JA. 2012. A new genus of endemic cricetid (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Neogene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). J Vertebr Paleontol. 32:722–726.10.1080/02724634.2012.652322
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Agustí J, Garcés M, Krijgsman W. 2006. Evidence for African-Iberian exchanges during the Messinian in the Spanish mammalian record. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 238:5–14.10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.013
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Alcalá L, Morales J. 1997. A primitive caprini from the Upper Vallesien of La Roma 2 (Alfambra, Teruel, Aragon, Spain). Compt Rend Acad Sci Paris. 324:947–953.
   Google Scholar
• Bachelet B, Aguilar JP, Calvet M, Michaux J. 1990. Nouvelles faunes de rongeurs du Pliocène des Pyrénées-Orientales: consequences pour le genre Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938) [New rodent Pliocene fauna from Eastern Pyrenees: consequences for the genus Stephanomys (Schaub, 1938)]. Geobios.23 (1):117–120.10.1016/0016-6995(90)80022-8
   Google Scholar
• Bate DMA. 1909. A new artiodactyle from Majorca. Geol Mag. 6:385–388.10.1017/S0016756800124665
   Google Scholar
• Bate DMA. 1918. On a new genus of extinct muscardine rodent from the Balearic Islands. P Zool Soc London. 88(3–4):209–222.
   Google Scholar
• Bate DMA. 1944. Pleistocene shrews from the larger western Mediterranean islands. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 11:738–769.10.1080/00222934408527471
   Google Scholar
• Bover P, Quintana J, Agustí J, Bailon S, Alcover JA. 2007. Caló den Rafelino: an Early Pliocene site in Mallorca, Western Mediterranean. In: Book of abstracts from VII International Symposium of Zoology. Cuba: Topes de Collantes, Sancti Spiritus; p. 12–17.
   Google Scholar
• Bover P, Quintana J, Alcover JA. 2008. Three islands, three worlds: palaeogeography and evolution of the vertebrate fauna from the Balearic Islands. Quat Int. 182:135–144.10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.039
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bover P, Quintana J, Alcover JA. 2010. A new species of Myotragus Bate, 1909 (Artiodactyla, Caprinae) from the early Pliocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean). Geol Mag. 147:871–885.10.1017/S0016756810000336
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bover P, Rofes J, Bailon S, Agustí J, Cuenca-Bescós G, Torres E, Alcover JA. 2014. The late Miocene/early Pliocene vertebrate fauna from Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): an update. Integr Zool. 9:183–196.10.1111/1749-4877.12049
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Castillo C, Agustí J. 1996. Early Pliocene rodents (Mammalia) from Asta Regia (Jerez basin, Southwestern Spain). Proc Konink Neded Akad Wetens. 99(1–2):25–43.
   Google Scholar
• Daams R, Freudenthal M. 1988. Cricetidae (Rodentia) from the type Aragonian; the genus Megacricetodon. In: Freudenthal M, editor. Biostratigraphy and paleo-ecology of the Neogene micromammalian faunas from the Calatayud-Teruel Basin (Spain). Leiden: NCB Naturalis. Scripta Geol, Spec Issue . Vol. 1; p. 39–132.
   Google Scholar
• Depéret C. 1890–1897. Les animaux pliocènes du Roussillon. Mém Soc Géol France, Paléont. 3:1–194.
   Google Scholar
• Falconer H, Cautley PT. 1836. Note on the fossil hippopotamus of the Siválik Hills. Asiat Res. 19:39–53.
   Google Scholar
• Freudenthal M. 1985. Cricetidae (Rodentia) from the Neogene of Gargano (prov. of Foggia, Italy). Scripta Geol. 77:29–76.
   Google Scholar
• Freudenthal M, Lacomba JI, Martín-Suárez E. 1991. The Cricetidae (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Late Miocene of Crevillente (prov. Alicante, Spain). Scripta Geol. 96:9–46.
   Google Scholar
• Freudenthal M, Mein P, Martín-Suárez E. 1998. Revision of Late Miocene and Pliocene Cricetinae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Spain and France. Treb Mus Geol Bar. 7:11–93.
   Google Scholar
• Furió M, Pons-Monjo G. 2013. The use of the species concept in paleontology. Comment on “Nesiotites rafelinensis sp. nov., the earliest shrew (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the Balearic Islands, Spain” by Rofes et al., 2012. Palaeont Elect. 16(2):16A.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• García-Alix A, Minwer-Barakat R, Martín-Suárez E, Freudenthal M. 2008a. Cricetidae and Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene and Pliocene of southern Spain. Scripta Geol. 136:1–37.
   Google Scholar
• García-Alix A, Minwer-Barakat R, Martín JM, Martín Suárez E, Freudenthal M. 2008b. Biostratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of Late Miocene and Pliocene continental deposits of the Granada Basin (southern Spain). Lethaia. 41:431–446.10.1111/let.2008.41.issue-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gautier F, Clauzon G, Suc JP, Cravatte J, Violanti D. 1994. Age et durée de la crise de salinité messinienne. Compt Rend Acad Sci Paris. 318:1103–1109.
   Google Scholar
• Günther A. 1874. Description of a new European species of Zootoca. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 14(80):158–159.10.1080/00222937408680940
   Google Scholar
• Hernández-Fernández M, Azanza B, Álvarez-Sierra MA. 2004. Iberian Plio-Pleistocene biochronology: micromammalian evidence for MNs and ELMAs calibration in southwestern Europe. J Quat Sci. 19(6):605–616.10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1417
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hsü kJ, Ryan WBF, Cita MB. 1973. Late Miocene dessication of the Mediterranean. Nature. 242:240–244.10.1038/242240a0
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hsü KJ, Stoffers P, Ross DA. 1978. Messinian evaporites from the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. Mar Geol. 26:71–72.10.1016/0025-3227(78)90046-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Köhler M, Moyà-Solà S, Morales J. 1995. The vertebrate locality Maramena (Macedonia, Greece) at the Turolian-Ruscinian boundary (Neogene). 15. Bovidae and Giraffidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia). Munch Geowis Abhand, ser A. 28:167–180.
   Google Scholar
• Krijgsman W, Hilgen FJ, Raffi I, Sierro FJ, Wilson DS. 1999. Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature. 400:652–655.10.1038/23231
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Linnaeus C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae: Impenis direct Laurentii Salvii; 588 p.
   Google Scholar
• Mansino S, Ruiz-Sánchez FJ, Freudenthal M, Montoya P. 2014. A new approach to the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene forms of the genus Apocricetus. Apocricetus alberti (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Venta del Moro (Cabriel Basin, Spain). Proc Geol Assoc. 125:392–405.10.1016/j.pgeola.2014.07.002
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manzi V, Gennari R, Hilgen F, Krijgsman W, Lugli S, Roveri M, Sierro FJ. 2013. Age refinement of the Messinian salinity crisis onset in the Mediterranean. Terra Nova. 25:315–322.10.1111/ter.2013.25.issue-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mein P, Michaux J. 1970. Un nouveau stade dans l’évolution des rongeurs pliocènes de Europe sud-occidentale. Compt Rend Acad Sci Paris, ser D. 270:2780–2783.
   Google Scholar
• Michaux J. 1969. Muridae (Rodentia) du Pliocéne supérieur d’Espagne et du Midi de la France. Palaeovertebrata. 3:l–25.
   Google Scholar
• Miller G. 1910. Two new genera of murine rodents. Smiths Misc Collect. 52:497–498.
   Google Scholar
• Millien V. 2006. Morphological evolution is accelerated among island mammals. PLoS Biol. 4:e321.10.1371/journal.pbio.0040321
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Minwer-Barakat R, García-Alix A, Martín Suárez E, Freudenthal M, Viseras C. 2012. Micromammal biostratigraphy of the Upper Miocene to lowest Pleistocene continental deposits of the Guadix basin, southern Spain. Lethaia. 45:594–614.10.1111/let.2012.45.issue-4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Oliver A, Peláez-Campomanes P. 2013. Megacricetodon vandermeuleni, sp. nov. (Rodentia, Mammalia), from the Spanish Miocene: a new evolutionary framework for Megacricetodon. J Vertebr Paleontol. 33:943–955.10.1080/02724634.2013.743896
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Petter F. 1968. Un muridé Quaternaire nouveau d’Algérie, Paraethomys filfilae. Ses rapports avec les Muridés actuels. Mammalia. 32:54–59.
   Google Scholar
• Pomel A. 1853. Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des vertébrés fossiles découverts dans le bassin hydrographique supérieur de la Loire, et surtout dans la vallée de son affluent principal l’Allier. Paris: Baillière; p. 193.
   Google Scholar
• Quintana J, Bover P, Alcover JA, Agustí J, Bailon S. 2010. Presence of Hypolagus Dice, 1917 (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) in the Neogene of the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean): Description of Hypolagus balearicus nov. sp. Geobios. 43:555–567.10.1016/j.geobios.2010.03.003
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rasband WS. 2009. ImageJ. Bethesda (MD): U.S. National Institutes of Health. http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/.
   Google Scholar
• Rofes J, Bover P, Cuenca-Bescós G, Alcover JA. 2012. Nesiotites rafelinensis sp. nov., the earliest shrew (Mammalia, Soricidae) from the Balearic Islands, Spain. Palaeon Elect. 15(1):8A, 12p.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rofes J, Bover P, Cuenca-Bescós G, Alcover JA. 2013. Proportions, characters and chronologies: their contribution to systematic paleontology. A rebuttal to Furió and Pons-Monjo. Palaeon Elect. 16(2):20A, 5p.
   Google Scholar
• Ruiz-Sánchez FJ, Freudenthal M, Mansino S, Crespo VD, Montoya P. 2014. Apocricetus barrierei (Rodentia, Mammalia) from La Bullana 2B and La Bullana 3 (Cabriel Basin, Valencia, Spain). Revision of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene forms of the genus Apocricetus. Paläontol Z. 88:85–98.10.1007/s12542-013-0178-0
   Google Scholar
• Sanchiz B, Adrover R. 1979 ( figured 1977). Anfibios fósiles del Pleistoceno de Mallorca. Doñana Act Vert. 4:5–25.
   Google Scholar
• Savorelli A. 2013. New data on the Cricetidae from the Miocene “Terre Rosse” of Gargano (Apulia, Italy). Geobios. 46:77–88.10.1016/j.geobios.2012.10.002
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Savorelli A, Masini F. 2016. Mystemys giganteus n. gen. et sp.: an enigmatic and rare cricetid from the Terre Rosse M013 fissure filling (Gargano, Southeastern Italy). Palaeontograph, Abt A: Palaeoz–Strat. 306(1–6):1–23.
   Google Scholar
• Schaub S. 1930. Quartäre und jungtertiäre Hamster. Abh Schweiz Pal Gesellsch. 49(2):1–49.
   Google Scholar
• Schlosser M. 1903. Die fossilen Säugethiere Chinas nebst einer Odontographie der recenten Antilopen. Abh. d. II. Cl der k Akad d Wissensch. 22(1):1–221.
   Google Scholar
• Torres-Roig E, Bailon S, Bover P, Alcover JA. 2017. An early Pliocene anuran assemblage from Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): palaeobiogeographic and palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeobiodiv Palaeoenviron. 97:315–327. DOI:10.1007/s12549-017-0273-4.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van der Made J, Morales J, Montoya P. 2006. Late Miocene turnover in the Spanish mammal record in relation to palaeoclimate and the Messinian salinity crisis. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol. 238:228–246.10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.030
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Waterhause GR. 1839. Description of a new species of Hamster. Proc Zool Soc. 7:57–58.
   Google Scholar