The first fossil record of endemic murid rodents from the Philippines: A late Pleistocene cave fauna from northern Luzon

Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 234-247

  Heaney, Lawrence R ^a   Piper, Philip J ^b   Mijares, Armand S B ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

Author keywords

dentary bones; endemism; fossil rodents; murid morphology

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CAVE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PALEOBIOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RODENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; VALLEY;

CAGAYAN; CAGAYAN VALLEY; CALLAO CAVE; LUZON; PHILIPPINES;

APOMYS; APOMYS MICRODON; BATOMYS; CHROTOMYS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PHLOEOMYS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80053996305     PISSN: 0006324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2988/10-32.1     Document Type: Article

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