Musk Deer on the Run – Dispersal of Miocene Moschidae in the Context of Environmental Changes
Kitapta bölümler > Diğer · 2023
Yazarlar: Manuela Aiglstorfer, Israel M. Sánchez, Shi Qi Wang, Jorge Morales, Chunxiao Li, Serdar MAYDA, Loïc Costeur, Elmar P. Heizmann, Bastien Mennecart
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Diğer, Springer Nature (Netherlands), B, Uluslararası, 2023, ss 165-187, İsviçre, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_11
Özet
The aim of this review is, first of all, to summarize our knowledge on Miocene Moschidae and provide a helpful tool for the determination of moschids in Miocene faunas. Secondly, it gives an overview of our current knowledge on the spreading of Miocene Moschidae by characterizing the environmental conditions at key localities across Eurasia. Although many questions still remain unanswered, the spreading of moschids can clearly be correlated with the cooler, drier, more open, and especially more seasonal conditions that changed the terrestrial ecosystems across Eurasia during the Middle Miocene Climatic Transition. Moschids, far from being indicators for closed and humid environments as often assumed, were able to cope with drier and more seasonal environments, and could prove a helpful tool for paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the future; e.g., to also tackle environments of Miocene primates in more detail.