Soricidae, Fischer von Waldheim, 1817

Pazonyi, Piroska, Mészáros, Lukács, Hír, János & Mta-Mtm-Elte, Zoltán Szentesi, 2016, The lowermost Pleistocene rodent and soricid (Mammalia) fauna from Beremend 14 locality (South Hungary) and its biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 33, pp. 99-134 : 110

Soricidae gen. et sp. indet.

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Material – 1 left mandible fragment with M 1 (L = 1.76, W = 0.84) ; 1 edentulous right mandible fragment; 1 left I 1 (L = 1.92, H = 1.40); 1 right I 1 (L = 1.84, H = 0.36) .

Description – Medium-sized Soricidae form. The coronoid process of the mandible is Neomys -like: the external temporal fossa is divided by a strong coronoid spicule. Otherwise, this species is different from Neomini shrews in its unpigmented teeth and Crocidura -like condyle. The M 1 buccal cingulum is as weak as at crocidurines, but – opposite of them – it is not undulated. Upper incisors are not fissident, they are very similar to C. kornfeldi I 1 yielded by this site, but they are somewhat bigger than the Crocidura teeth.