ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI 主要发表原创研究报告，但也对动物生态学和进化的各个方面以及相关领域进行深入评论和评论。我们的目标是通过使用综合和跨学科的方法来推广关注过去和现在环境中各种组件之间相互作用的论文。这可以通过使用来自不同研究领域的工具来实现，例如（但不限于）：生态学和古生态学、分子生态学和系统地理学、保护生物学、人类引起的当代进化和野生动物管理、动物行为和相互作用（包括识别系统和机制），古生物学（系统学和分类学除外）和进化，生物能量学。

Annales Zoologici Fennici primarily publishes original research reports while also providing in-depth reviews and discussions on various aspects of animal ecology, evolution, and related fields. Our aim is to promote papers that focus on the interactions between various components in past and present environments through integrated and interdisciplinary approaches. This can be achieved by utilizing tools from different research areas, such as ecology, paleoecology, molecular ecology, systematic geography, conservation biology, anthropogenic contemporary evolution, wildlife management, animal behavior and interactions (including recognition systems and mechanisms), paleobiology (excluding systematics and taxonomy), and bioenergetics.

《Annales Zoologici Fennici》主要发表原创研究报告，同时也深入探讨动物生态学、进化及相关领域的各个方面。我们的目标是通过综合和跨学科的方法，促进对过去和现在环境中各种组成部分相互作用的研究。这可以通过使用来自不同研究领域的工具来实现，例如生态学、古生态学、分子生态学、系统地理学、保护生物学、人类引起的当代进化、野生动物管理、动物行为及其相互作用（包括识别系统和机制）、古生物学（不包括系统学和分类学）以及生物能量学等。

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Teemu Toivonen

Bringing the past to life in writing — a look into Björn Kurtén's popular science literature

在写作中赋予过去生命——探究比约恩·库尔滕的大众科学文献

While there is a rich Miocene fossil record from Europe, it is heavily biased to areas south of 50°N, and Miocene records from northern Europe are very scarce. Especially Fennoscandia has traditionally been considered to lack practically all evidence from the Neogene mainly due to heavy glacial erosion during the Pleistocene. However, during recent years, a few isolated, re-deposited finds of Miocene mammal fossils from Finland and Sweden have somewhat changed the situation. While the original provenance of these finds is uncertain, they most likely originate from eroded Miocene sediments within the Fennoscandian shield itself, in any case broadly representing northern Europe. A proboscidean humerus fragment from Suomusjärvi, Finland, is considered Miocene in age because of microfossil contents of the attached sediment remnant, and it has been tentatively identified as Deinotherium sp. Microfossils from the Suomusjärvi specimen indicate a warm, humid freshwater shore environment, broadly similar to the swamp-forest dominated plant communities from Miocene deposits of Denmark and Iceland. Molars of a tetraconodontine suid and a gomphothere from Sweden add to the Miocene finds from Fennoscandia, although the provenance of the latter is still uncertain.

Juha Saarinen

J. Sakari Salonen

Miocene of Finland? Discoveries of Neogene microfossil assemblages and mammal fossils from northern Europe

芬兰的渐新世？北欧中新世微体化石组合与哺乳动物化石的发现

A tiny feline mandibular corpus fragment from the late Middle Pleistocene fossil hominin locality of Hualongdong is reported here as a new species Prionailurus kurteni. This species represents the smallest known fossil member of the family Felidae to date, comparable in size to two of the smallest modern cats, P. rubiginosus and Felis nigripes. It is unique in having a small p4 mesial accessory cuspid, very weak p4 distal cingulid, relatively deep mandibular corpus under m1, and a distally located anterior border of the masseteric fossa. A notable synapomorphy observed in the lineage including Prionailurus, Felis and Otocolobus, is the mesially inclined m1. The identification of P. kurteni suggests a potentially high diversity of Prionailurus during the prehistorical time, underscoring the significance of revisiting the taxonomy of small Felidae to gain a better understanding of the evolution and diversification of this family.

Qigao Jiangzuo

Lars Werdelin

Kai Zhang

Haowen Tong

Yi Yan

Yiying Chen

Jiao Ma

Jinyi Liu

Xiujie Wu

Prionailurus kurteni (Felidae, Carnivora), a new species of small felid from the late Middle Pleistocene fossil hominin locality of Hualongdong, southern China

普氏豹猫（猫科，食肉目）：华南洞穴晚中新世晚期古人类遗址发现的小型猫科新物种

Based on his analyses of lynx and brown bear teeth, Björn Kurtén coined the concept of 'realisation threshold', the smallest size at which a tooth can form and erupt properly. Kurtén found the smallest sizes of the studied lynx and bear teeth to be 2.5 mm and 3.5 mm, respectively, much greater than for example the smallest rodent teeth known to readily erupt. A recent study comparing developing teeth from shrews to elephants suggested a relatively unchanged theoretical minimum tooth size for mammalian teeth. Together, these studies have left open the question of whether realisation thresholds of teeth are larger in larger mammals than in small ones. Here, we followed Kurtén's line of thought and compared the sizes of teeth that are variably present in dentitions, and therefore likely cross the realisation threshold only occasionally. First, we show using published reports that variably present teeth are relatively small in large mammals, but larger than the previously suggested theoretical minimum tooth size. Next, we examine the canines of mares, which are known to be variably present. We report one canine that, compared with information found in the literature, is by far the smallest compared to the body size. In conclusion, whereas the variably present teeth tend to be larger in large mammals, there may be overlooked potential for large mammals to develop very small teeth. This information can be helpful in extrapolating findings from common small model organisms, such as mice, to larger mammals, including humans.

Mona M. Christensen

Juha Laakkonen

Jukka Jernvall

Realisation threshold revisited: does the minimum tooth size scale with body size?

实现阈值再探讨：最小牙齿尺寸是否随体型大小而变化？

The Late Miocene vertebrate localities in the Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece) were discovered at the beginning of the last century by the French geologist Camille Arambourg, who made a large fossil collection and carried it back to France. During the last 50 years, extensive fieldwork have been carried out by a Greek–French team, which has yielded a large number of fossils. Important data on fauna, stratigraphy, biochronology, and palaeoecology were obtained from the study of this collection. The fauna of the Axios Valley proved diverse, comprising numerous groups of mammals and number of new taxa. It is divided into five distinct faunal assemblages, which cover chronologically the entire Late Miocene period. These faunas have been systematically studied, dated, and correlated with the European MN (mammal Neogene) biozones. Their analysis has been a major contribution to the understanding of palaeoenvironmental conditions and climatic changes during the Late Miocene in Greece and the wider Eastern Mediterranean region. The faunas of the Axios Valley have a well-established geographic, stratigraphic, systematic, and chronological background. They were the first to appear in the Eastern Mediterranean and can be used as a comparative fauna for the Late Miocene. Subsequent works in Greece and Türkiye added more data, further improving our understanding of the Neogene period in the Eastern Mediterranean. This paper is an attempt to summarise the work done on the Axios Valley Late Miocene mammal fauna in the last 50 years and present the results.

Abbreviation	Ann. Zool. Fennici.
Journal Impact	0.75
Quartiles(Global)	ZOOLOGY(Q3)

ISSN	0003-455X, 1797-2450
h-index	61

Publication Information	Publisher: Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board，Publishing cycle: Bimonthly，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1979，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：>12周，或约稿
Average recruitment ratio	网友分享经验：容易

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Bringing the past to life in writing — a look into Björn Kurtén's popular science literature

Miocene of Finland? Discoveries of Neogene microfossil assemblages and mammal fossils from northern Europe

Prionailurus kurteni (Felidae, Carnivora), a new species of small felid from the late Middle Pleistocene fossil hominin locality of Hualongdong, southern China

Realisation threshold revisited: does the minimum tooth size scale with body size?

Upper Miocene mammalian faunas of the Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece) and their contribution to the study of the Neogene in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bringing the past to life in writing — a look into Björn Kurtén's popular science literature

Miocene of Finland? Discoveries of Neogene microfossil assemblages and mammal fossils from northern Europe

Prionailurus kurteni (Felidae, Carnivora), a new species of small felid from the late Middle Pleistocene fossil hominin locality of Hualongdong, southern China

Realisation threshold revisited: does the minimum tooth size scale with body size?

Upper Miocene mammalian faunas of the Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece) and their contribution to the study of the Neogene in the Eastern Mediterranean