Sibnica 2 (Miocene of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro (43.3° N, 21.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 4 mammal zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; brown, gray, yellow claystone and sandy, carbonaceous claystone

• The Sibnica 1 and 2 fossil localities are at short distance from the original locality. These sites were sampled in 1997–2011. The host rock of the fossil mammals is composed of brownish-grey and yellowish clays. It is intercalated between the grey sandy-clays, coal-bearing clays with pieces of carbonized tree trunks and brownish-grey coal-bearing clays.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: S. Kneżević, A. van de Weerd, and Z. Marković. 2016. Overview of the geology of the Levač basin and the fossil mammal and the fossil plants localities in the Sibnica area (Central Serbia). In Z. Marković and M. Milivojević (eds.), Special Issue of the Natural History Museum in Belgrade: Life on the Shore - geological and palaeontological research in the Neogene of Sibnica and vicinity (Levač Basin, Central Serbia) Part 1 11-20 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199781: authorized by Terri Cleary, entered by Terri Cleary on 15.02.2019

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Taxonomic list

• Duric states that "The composition of the [herpeto-]fauna from [Sibnica 1, 2 and 4] is taxonomically pretty similar.", but does not specify where each taxon in their list comes from. Therefore all taxa they mention are included in all three collections until new literature says otherwise.
unclassified
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Amphibia
 Salientia -
Latonia cf. gigantea Lartet 1851 frog
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton cf. inexpectatum Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
See Sibnica 1 collection for potential specimen numbers for all herps from this reference.
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Bransatoglis aff. astaracensis Baudelot 1970 dormouse
Glis minor Kowalski 1963 dormouse
Glirudinus aff. euryodon Van der Meulen and De Bruijn 1982 dormouse
Glirulus lissiensis Hugueney and Mein 1965 Japanese dormouse
Glirulus werenfelsi Engesser 1972 Japanese dormouse
Glirulus ekremi Unay 1994 Japanese dormouse
 Rodentia - Anomalomyidae
Anomalomys minor Fejfar 1972 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Aliveria aff. luteyni de Bruijn et al. 1980 squirrel
Miopetaurista cf. dehmi de Bruijn et al. 1980 squirrel
Blackia miocaenica Mein 1970 squirrel
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
 Rodentia - Spalacidae
Heramys aff. eviensis Klein Hofmeijer and de Bruijn 1985 mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Democricetodon mutilus Fahlbusch 1964 mouse
Eumyarion cf. weinfurteri Schaub and Zapfe 1953 mouse
 Theriamorpha - Dimylidae
Chainodus sp. Ziegler 1990 placental
Plesiodimylus sp. Gaillard 1897 placental
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Dinosorex sp. Engesser 1972 shrew
Heterosorex sp. Gaillard 1915 shrew
Florinia sp. Ziegler 1989 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Plesiosoricidae
Plesiosorex sp. Pomel 1848 placental
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Desmanella sp. Engesser 1972 mole
Myxomygale sp. Filhol 1890 mole
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophidae indet. Gray 1825 horseshoe bat
Reptilia
 Squamata - Viperidae
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811 viper
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
 Squamata -
Gekkota indet. Cuvier 1817 squamates
 Squamata - Chamaeleonidae
Chamaeleonidae indet. Gray 1825 chameleon
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp. Merrem 1820 legless lizard