Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, EGU2008-A-07018, 2008 SRef-ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2008-A-07018 EGU General Assembly 2008 © Author(s) 2008 Paleogeography of Late Oligocene to Miocene rodent assemblages from the western Dinaride-Anatolian Land W. Wessels (1), Z. Markovi´ c (2), H. de Bruijn (1), G. Daxner-Höck (3), O. Mandic (3) and E. Šiši´ c (4) (1) Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, (2) Natural History Museum, Belgrade, Serbia, (3) Paleontological-Geological Department Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria, (4) RMU "Banovi´ ci", Banovi´ ci, Bosnia and Herzegovina (wessels@geo.uu.nl) The northward movement of the African plate during the Oligocene induced uplift and subsequent erosion of the Dinaride landmass and infill of the SW part of the Paratethys basin, bounded by the Mediterranean Tethys in the southwest and the Paratethys sea in the northeast. The new land was soon occupied by an extensive lacustrine system which lasted in its western part into the Middle Miocene. Integrated stratigraphical investigations of that Miocene Dinaride lake system initiated investigations of rodent faunas for improving the correlation and providing insight in the paleogeographic pro- cesses. Despite the extensive record of Early Miocene Rodentia from South-western Europe and the eastern Mediterranean area the exchange of faunal elements between these areas is poorly documented. Investigation of the coal bearing deposits in Bosnia and Herzegovina preserved near Ugljevik and Banovi´ ci yielded new small assemblages which could be biostratigraph- ically dated. The assemblage from Ugljevik resembles the Late Oligocene ones from Thrace and Anatolia (Ünay, 1989; Ünay et al., 2003) in sharing the same species of Eomys (Thrace), a ctenodactyloid (Anatolia) and a Bransatoglis that is similar to those from both areas. At the same time the dominant cricitid in Ugljevik seems to be ancestral to Enginia, which is so far known from coal bearing deposits in Anato-