Paraglis astaracensis Baudelot, 1970

Hír, J., 2013, Early and Middle Miocene (MN 5 - MN 6) transitional rodent fauna from Litke (North Hungary, Nógrád County), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 30, pp. 101-137 : 109

Paraglis astaracensis Baudelot, 1970

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Material and measurements (mm) –

Locality No. inv. MMP. Position L W Figure Litke 1 2012.195. M2 1.62 1.75 8

Description – Strongly worned subsenile specimen. Concave occlusal surface. Seven main ridges: anteroloph, protoloph, anterior extra ridge, anterior centroloph, posterior centroloph, metaloph and posteroloph. All of them are connected to the endoloph. The labial ends of the ridges are mainly merged; only the anterior centroloph is free, divided from the neighbouring ridges by two grooves. One short accessoric ridge is found between the posterior centroloph and the metaloph in the labial side.

Comments – The subfamily Bransatoglirinae covers a very wide stratigraphic range Late Eocene (MP 17) to the early Late Miocene (MN 9). A revision of the Bransatoglirinae is given by FREUDENTHAL & MARTIN-SUÁREZ (2007). They restored the genus Paraglis Baudelot, 1970 and we follow their revised taxonomy. The subfamily was represented by only two species ( Bransatoglis cadeoti and Paraglis astaracensis ) in the European faunas of the MN 4, MN 5 and MN 6 zones ( DAAMS 1999). The latter one survived up to the MN9 zone. Bransatoglis cadeoti is out of consideration because of its larger measurements. The comparison of the dimensions of B. infralactorensis , P. astaracensis and B. cadeoti is given by SCHÖTZ (2002, p. 131.)

Occurrences of Bransatoglis and Paraglis in Austria, Slovakia and Hungary: B. fugax, Oberdorf, MN 4, DE BRUIJN 1998; B. aff. cadeoti, Obergänserndorf, MN 5, DAXNER-HÖCK 1998; Bransatoglis sp. , Teiritzberg, MN 5, DAXNER-HÖCK 1998; P. astaracensis, Schönweg MN 5, RABEDER 1984; P. astaracensis, Neudorf- Spalte, MN 6, SABOL et al. 2004; P. astaracensis, Bonanza, MN 6, SABOL et al. 2004; Paraglis sp. , Mátraszőlős 2., MN 7/8, HÍR & KÓKAY 2004).

Referring to the opinion of CASANOVAS-VILAR (2007) Bransatoglis indicates affinities with the rodent faunas of higher latitudes. According to FREUDENTHAL & MARTIN-SUÁREZ (2007) the centre of the distribution of Paraglis is Central and/or maybe Eastern Europe.