New middle Pleistocene Galictini (Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Matsugae cave deposits, northern Kyushu, West Japan

Paleontological Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-166

  Ogino, Shintaro ^a   Otsuka, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Galictini; Japan; Mustelidae; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEPOSIT; MORPHOLOGY; MUSTELID; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY; TYPE LOCALITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU;

CARNIVORA; LUTRA; MAMMALIA; MUSTELIDAE;

EID: 48849092179     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144(2008)12[159:NMPGMC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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