The rodents from the Late Miocene Oreopithecus-bearing site of Fiume Santo (Sardinia, Italy);Les rongeurs du site miocène supérieur à Oreopithecus de Fiume Santo (Sardaigne, Italie)

Geobios

Volumn 44, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 173-187

  Casanovas Vilar, Isaac ^a   van Dam, Jan A ^a,b   Trebini, Luciano ^c   Rook, Lorenzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per le Province di Sassari e Nuoro   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gliridae; Hominoidea; Insular faunas; Late Miocene; Muridae; New species; Small mammals

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; RODENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOOTH;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MYOXIDAE; OREOPITHECUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 79956026592     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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