期刊
MAMMAL REVIEW
卷 44, 期 3-4, 页码 164-176出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mam.12016
关键词
dispersal; immigration; late Neogene; molecular tree; palaeoecology
资金
- GACR [GA205/09/0184]
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CGL2011-28681]
- NSF [EAR 0958178]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [0958178] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Although Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and pikas) have a long evolutionary history in Eurasia and Africa, including primitive genera of Eurasia historically considered assignable at the family level to Leporidae, the predecessors of modern rabbits were absent throughout this vast region for most of the Miocene until late in that epoch. During the early and middle Miocene, crown group Leporidae differentiated in North America, then dispersed to northern Asia in the late Miocene around 8Ma (million years before present) and afterward. They then spread widely and apparently rapidly throughout Eurasia, reaching South Asia by 7.4Ma and penetrating Africa about 7Ma. The apparently abrupt introduction of Leporidae is a striking late Miocene event that we call the Leporid Datum. Perceived in terms of biochrons, the Leporid Datum includes localities in Europe and western Asia of late MN11 (Mammiferes Neogenes system) age and younger, and precedes by less than one million years the Bahean-Baodean land mammal age boundary in China. The late Miocene spread of Leporidae throughout Eurasia was a successful invasion in terms of the numerous occurrences and abundant fossils preserved. Where dating is sufficiently robust, the Leporid Datum is late Miocene, nowhere certainly more than approximate to 8Ma. In contrast to this sudden and widespread invasion, rare older finds suggest two possible refinements to this scenario: stem lagomorphs close to modern Leporidae may have lingered into the middle Miocene of Eurasia, or an independent, unsuccessful leporid invasion from North America may have preceded the 8Ma datum. The Leporid Datum marks an important palaeoecological event for the Old World and complements the significance of molecular dates for origins of modern genera.
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