FOSSIL LAGOMORPHA (MAMMALIA) OF ITALY: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY

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	FOSSIL LAGOMORPHA (MAMMALIA) OF ITALY: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY
	Angelone, Chiara 1,2,3; Moncunill-Sole, Blanca 1,4; Kotsakis, Tassos 1
	2020-03-01
发表期刊	RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
ISSN	0035-6883
卷号	126 期号:1 页码:157-187
通讯作者	Angelone, Chiara(angelone@uniroma3.it)
摘要	Revisions performed in the last 15 years added remarkable novelties to the taxonomy and biochronology of Italian fossil lagomorphs. Several new taxa have been erected basing on new materials and on the revision of old materials. This paper aims to illustrate the state of the art of such researches. The lagomorph diversity in the Italian Neogene and Pleistocene is quite high, accounting 9 ochotonids, 14 leporids, and 3 stem lagomorphs. Among the lagomorph taxa recorded in Italy, quite a high number are insular or continental endemics. The oldest Italian lagomorphs are the insular endemic Paludotona aff. minor, P. etruria and P. minor from the early-middle Turolian of the Tusco-Sardinia palaeobioprovince, and Prolagus apricenicus and P. imperialis from the late Turolian of the Abruzzi-Apulia palaeobioprovince. In the Italian peninsula, lagomorphs are known since the late Turolian (early Messinian). Prolagus appears in pre-evaporitic Messinian (Prolagus sorbinii) and gives rise to species endemic to the Italian peninsula (Prolagus italicus, late Villanyian, central Italy; P. savagei/ P. off sorbinii, early Villanyian-eady Biharian, NW and central Italy). The presence of Prolagus was probably constant until the early Biharian, age of its latest report in the Italian peninsula. The gap in the Pliocene fossil record is apparent and due to the extreme scarcity of fossil localities bearing continental vertebrates in the Italian Pliocene. The Asian genus Ocbotona appeared at least twice in the Middle-Late Pleistocene of NE Italy, in correspondence of cold climatic phases. Prolagus of the latest Miocene-Early Pliocene of Italy represents the stock which originated the Sardinian lineage of Prokgits. The Sardinian species of Prolagus form an endemic insular anagenetic lineage whose oldest element is the earliest Late Pliocene P. aff. figaro, and which persists till historical times. The main turnover in the lineage, i.e. the transition P. figaro-P. sardus, is an event possibly related to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Minor morphological and dimensional changes can be detected among the population of both P. figaro and P. sardus, allowing a relative chronological arrangement of the Prolagus-bearing fossil sites. The first Italian leporids appear in the late Turolian. The continental endemic Ahlepus meini is limited to the pre-evaporitic Messinian of Tuscany, and Trischizolaguss sp., a taxon that still lacks a detailed systematic revision, is known from a couple of evaporitic and post-evaporitic Messinian fossil localities of northern-central Italy. There are no leporids in the Italian fossil record between the earliest Pliocene and the Late Pliocene (early Villinyian), i.e. before the oldest Italian record of Hypolagus. This genus is represented by scanty remains pertaining to different species, and is distributed all along the peninsula (H. petenyii, early Villanyian, NW Italy; H. brachygnathus, earliest Biharian, NE Italy; the continental endemic H. aff brachygnathus, early Biharian, SE Italy). In Sicily, Hypolagus is present with an endemic insular species (H. peregrinus, ?late early Biharian). Also Sardinia records an endemic insular leporid, Sardolagus obscures (Early Pleistocene). Its morphological features underwent significant modifications due to the permanence in an insular environment, preventing for the moment reliable phylogenetic inferences aimed to link it to known European continental genera. Extant lagomorph genera arrive in Italy with some delay with respect to the rest of Europe. In Europe, oryctolagus known since the Late Pliocene, whereas the oldest Italian species, O. valdarnensis, is known from the Early Pleistocene (late Villanyian-early Biharian) of central and probably SE Italy. After a gap in the late Biharian, Oryctolagus is recorded in the earliest Toringian of NW and western-central Italy with O. burgi. The extant species O. cuniculas appears in the Italian peninsula in the late Middle Pleistocene. Its presence is attested until MIS 3 in several Italian fossil sites, and in the MIS 2 and early Holocene in southernmost Italy, Sicily, and southern Italian minor islands. It can not be excluded that those relict populations interacted with the rabbits introduced by humans during the Holocene. As for Lepas, the oldest reliable Italian report dates back to the late early Biharian of central Italy (originally classified as L. terraerubrae). Extant species of Lepus appear in Italy since the early Toringian. Among them, Leper corsicanus has the oldest record; this species expands its geographical distribution to Sicily in the latest Pleistocene. Follows europoeus, whose oldest reliable Italian record is in the earliest late Toringian; this species expanded in the Italian peninsula at the expenses of L. corsicanus. During the Last Glacial Maximum, L. timidus makes sporadic appearance(s) in Italy, even in southern regions. Though showing endemic characters, the Sardinian hare L. mediterraneus is the result of human introduction in historical times.
关键词	Stem lagomorphs Ochotonidae Leporidae Neogene Quaternary endemism
关键词[WOS]	BACCINELLO-CINIGIANO BASIN ; GIACOMO ANAGNI BASIN ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; LATE MIOCENE ; PROLAGUS OCHOTONIDAE ; FAUNAL ASSEMBLAGES ; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; LATE PLIOCENE ; SARDINIA ; QUATERNARY
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Chinese Academy of Science ; Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion[CGL2016-76431-P] ; European Regional Development Fund of the European Union[CGL2016-76431-P] ; CERCA Program, Generalitat de Catalunya ; Xunta de Galicia[ED481B 2018/046]
项目资助者	Chinese Academy of Science ; Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion ; European Regional Development Fund of the European Union ; CERCA Program, Generalitat de Catalunya ; Xunta de Galicia
WOS研究方向	Geology ; Paleontology
WOS类目	Geology ; Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:000531477000007
出版者	UNIV STUDI MILANO
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/17443
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Angelone, Chiara
作者单位	1.Univ Roma Tre, Dipartimento Sci, Largo San Leonardo Munaldo 1, I-00146 Rome, Italy 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Palaeontol & Palaeoanthropol, 142 Xi Zhi Men Wai Da Jie, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Inst Catala Paleontol Miquel Crusafout, Edifici Z ICTA ICP,Cazrer Columnes S-N, Barcelona 08193, Spain 4.Univ A Coruna, Fac Ciencias, Ctr Invest Cient Avanzadas CICA, As Carballe S-N,Campus Elvina, La Coruna 15071, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Angelone, Chiara,Moncunill-Sole, Blanca,Kotsakis, Tassos. FOSSIL LAGOMORPHA (MAMMALIA) OF ITALY: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY[J]. RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA,2020,126(1):157-187.
APA	Angelone, Chiara,Moncunill-Sole, Blanca,&Kotsakis, Tassos.(2020).FOSSIL LAGOMORPHA (MAMMALIA) OF ITALY: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY.RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA,126(1),157-187.
MLA	Angelone, Chiara,et al."FOSSIL LAGOMORPHA (MAMMALIA) OF ITALY: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY".RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA 126.1(2020):157-187.