Rodents of the family anomaluridae (mammalia) from Southeast Asia (Middle Eocene, Pondaung Formation, Myanmar)

Annals of Carnegie Museum

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-213

  Dawson, Mary R ^c   Tsubamoto, Takehisa ^a   Takai, Masanaru ^a   Egi, Naoko ^a   Tun, Soe Thura ^b   Sein, Chit ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YANGON   (Myanmar)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anomaluridae; Middle Eocene; Myanmar; Pondaungimys; Rodentia

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; RODENT;

MYANMAR;

ANOMALURIDAE; MAMMALIA; PONDAUNGIMYS; PONDAUNGIMYS ANOMALUROPSIS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141838086     PISSN: 00974463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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