On Neogene rodents of Eurasia: distribution and migrations

The most recently published papers dealing with Eurasian rodents were compiled. The importance of dispersal migrations for our understanding of Eurasian faunal dynamics is stressed on the basis of selected rodent taxa. The rodent genera appeared in Asia generally earlier than their European relatives, evidences for the way of migrations. Many migrations may not have been preserved in the fossil record; however, most of them seem to originate in Asia, even if two or three examples show the contrary. Four main dispersal centres (China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Anatolia) were important during Neogene times.