Late Pleistocene microtine rodents from Snake Creek Burial Cave, White Pine County, Nevada

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-86

  Bell, Christopher J ^a,b   Mead, Jim I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Lemmiscus; Microtus; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

LEMNISCUS CURTATUS; MICROTUS;

EID: 0031913109     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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