Glirulus lissiensis ( Hugueney & Mein, 1965 )

Hír, János & Kókay, József, 2010, A systematic study of the middle-late Miocene rodents and lagomorphs (Mammalia) of Felsőtárkány 3 / 8 and 3 / 10 (Northern Hungary) with stratigraphical relations, Geodiversitas 32 (2), pp. 307-329 : 313-314

Glirulus lissiensis ( Hugueney & Mein, 1965)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — See Table 6 for data and measurements.

DESCRIPTION

The occlusal surface is rectangular and concave. It bears five main ridges (including the centrolophid) and two extra ridges. Th e endolophid is

Locality No. inv. MMP Position L W Fig. FT 3/8 2007.2520 m 2 0.87 0.85 6I

interrupted between the centrolophid and the mesolophid. Th e centrolophid is long but does not reach the labial margin. Th e extra ridges are not developed in both sides of the centrolophid. This morphotype is found in an m1 among the paratypes of the species ( Hugueney & Mein 1965: pl. III, fig. 58).

COMMENTS

In eastern Central Europe, G. lissiensis is found in the following late Astaracian-Early Vallesian localities: Rudabánya, Richardhof-Golfplatz, Richardhof-Wald (MN 9; Daxner-Höck 2005), Schernham ( Glirulus sp.; MN 10; Daxner-Höck 2004b), Borsky Sväty Jur (MN 9; Sabol et al. 2004), Belchatow A (MN 9; Kowalski 1997; Garapich 2002) and Subpiatra 2/2 (MN 7/8; Venczel et al. 2005).