European Neogene Mammal Chronology

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Setting....Pages 1-14
European Neogene Marine/Continental Chronologic Correlations....Pages 15-46
A Biochronologic Subdivison of the European Paleogene Based on Mammals — Report on Results of the Paleogene Symposium Held in Mainz in February 1987....Pages 47-50
The Ramblian and the Aragonian: Limits, Subdivision, Geographical and Temporal Extension....Pages 51-59
New Neogene Rodent Assemblages from Anatolia (Turkey)....Pages 61-72
Updating of MN Zones....Pages 73-90
Muroid Rodent Biochronology of the Neogene and Quaternary in Europe....Pages 91-117
Biozones or Mammal Units? Methods and Limits in Biochronology....Pages 119-130
Large Mammal Dispersal Events at the Beginning of the Late Villafranchian....Pages 131-138
Synthesis on the “Aquitanian” Lagomorph and Rodent Faunas of the Aquitaine Basin (France)....Pages 139-156
The Faunas and Stratigraphical Subdivisions of the Orleanian in the Loire Basin (France)....Pages 157-176
A Preliminary Mammal Zonation of the Upper Marine Molasse of Switzerland....Pages 177-180
The Faunal Succession of the Bavarian Molasse Reconsidered — Correlation of the Mn 5 and Mn 6 Faunas....Pages 181-192
Stratigraphy of Neogene Mammals of Poland....Pages 193-209
The Neogene VP Sites of Czechoslovakia: A Contribution to the Neogene Terrestric Biostratigraphy of Europe Based on Rodents....Pages 211-236
The “Proboscidean Datum Event:” How Many Proboscideans and How Many Events?....Pages 237-252
The Proboscideans Data, Age and Paleogeography: Evidence from the Miocene of Lisbon....Pages 253-262
Patterns of Old World Hipparionine Evolutionary Diversification and Biogeographic Extension....Pages 263-319
The Hipparions of the Lower Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece). Implications for the Neogene Stratigraphy and the Evolution of Hipparions....Pages 321-338
The Genus Equus in Europe....Pages 339-356
Bioevents and Mammal Successions in the Spanish Miocene....Pages 357-373
The Miocene Rodent Succession in Eastern Spain: A Zoogeographical Appraisal....Pages 375-404
Gundersheim-Findling, A Ruscinian Rodent Fauna of Asian Affinities from Germany....Pages 405-412
Dynamics of Old World Biogeographic Realms During the Neogene: Implications for Biostratigraphy....Pages 413-442
Miocene Paleoecology of Paşalar, Turkey....Pages 443-459
Taphonomic and Sedimentary Factors in the Fossil Record of Mammals....Pages 461-474
Relations between Paleoclimatology and Plio-Pleistocene Biostratigraphic Data in West European Countries....Pages 475-485
Small Mammal Taphonomy....Pages 487-494
 Hipparion Datum and Its Chronologic Evidence in the Mediterranean Area....Pages 495-505
The Magnetic Stratigraphy of the Late Miocene Sediments of the Cabriel Basin, Spain....Pages 507-514
Preliminary Magnetostratigraphic Results of Some Neogene Mammal Localities From Anatolia (Turkey)....Pages 515-525
The Chinese Neogene Mammalian Biochronology — Its Correlation with the European Neogene Mammalian Zonation....Pages 527-556
Key Biostratigraphic Events in the Siwalik Sequence....Pages 557-571
 Quo Vadis , Antemus? The Siwalik Muroid Record....Pages 573-586
The African Dimension in European Early Miocene Mammal Faunas....Pages 587-599
Development and Application of Land Mammal Ages in North America and Europe, a Comparison....Pages 601-624
The Past, The Present, and The Future....Pages 625-628
Back Matter....Pages 629-658