Noteworthy rodent records from the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene of Slovenia

Mammalia

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 98-105

  Toškan, Borut ^a   Kryštufek, Boris ^b  

^a ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Distribution; Holocene; Pleistocene; Rodentia; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; NEW RECORD; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RODENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

APODEMUS AGRARIUS; CRICETULUS; CRICETULUS MIGRATORIUS; DINAROMYS BOGDANOVI; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SICISTA SUBTILIS;

EID: 34247516337     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2006.002     Document Type: Article

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