Valniš (Oligocene of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: 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; claystone

• 100–150-cm-thick coal-rich clay layer

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2010-2016

Primary reference: Z. Marković, W. Wessels, A. A. Weerd and H. Bruijn. 2018. On a new diatomyid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia, the first record of the family in Europe. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 98(3):459-469 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190736: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.12.2017, edited by Pauline Coster and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Material accessioned in the Natural History Museum in Belgrade
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Peratherium sp.2
Peratherium sp.2 Aymard 1850 marsupial
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet.2
Erinaceidae indet.2 Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
 Rodentia - Diatomyidae
Inopinatia balkanica n. gen. n. sp.
Inopinatia balkanica n. gen. n. sp. Marković et al. 2018 rodent
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Heosminthus primiveris5
Heosminthus primiveris5 Wang 1985 rodent
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Witenia cf. fusca1, Heterocricetodon serbicus n. sp.3, Pseudocricetodon cf. heissigi3, Pseudocricetodon montalbanensis1, Mogilia lautus n. sp.4, Paracricetodon gracilis n. sp.1, Paracricetodon stojanovici1, Paracricetodon dehmi1
Witenia cf. fusca1 de Bruijn et al. 2003 mouse
Heterocricetodon serbicus n. sp.3 Marković et al. 2019 mouse
Valniš 027 VA-501 - type
Pseudocricetodon cf. heissigi3 Marković et al. 2019 mouse
Mogilia lautus n. sp.4 Wessels et al. 2018 mouse
Paracricetodon gracilis n. sp.1 van de Weerd et al. 2018 mouse
Paracricetodon stojanovici1 van de Weerd et al. 2018 mouse
Paracricetodon dehmi1 Hrubesh 1957 mouse
1de Bruijn et al. 2019; 2de Bruijn et al. 2018; 3Marković et al. 2019; 4Wessels et al. 2018; 5Wessels et al. 2019