Strelac-2 (Oligocene of Serbia and Montenegro)

Also known as Strelac 2

Where: Pirotska oblast , Serbia and Montenegro (43.0° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red, blue claystone

• The clay layer from which the fossils were collected is irregular in thickness(~ 20 cm) and more bluish/reddish. In this layer, coal inclusions, sand grains of different sizes and small pebbles have been observed.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2010-2016

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn, Z. Marković, W. Wessels, M. Milivojević, and A. A. Weer. 2018. Rodent faunas from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 98(3):441-458 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196837: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 10.10.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Material accessioned in the Natural History Museum in Belgrade
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Heterocricetodon serbicus2, cf. Edirnella "nov. sp. 2"1, Paracricetodon stojanovici1
Heterocricetodon serbicus2 Marković et al. 2019 rodent
cf. Edirnella "nov. sp. 2"1 Unay-Bayraktar 1989 rodent
Paracricetodon stojanovici1 van de Weerd et al. 2018 rodent
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Heosminthus primiveris3
Heosminthus primiveris3 Wang 1985 rodent
 Rodentia - Diatomyidae
Inopinatia balkanica1
Inopinatia balkanica1 Marković et al. 2018 rodent
 Artiodactyla -
Artiodactyla indet.
Artiodactyla indet. Owen 1848 even-toed ungulate
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet.
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
 Tribosphenida - Herpetotheriidae
Peratherium sp.
Peratherium sp. Aymard 1850 marsupial
1de Bruijn et al. 2019; 2Marković et al. 2019; 3Wessels et al. 2019