New discoveries on the giant hedgehog Deinogalerix from the Miocene of Gargano (Apulia, Italy)

Geobios

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 63-75

  Villier, Boris ^a   Van Den Hoek Ostende, Lars W ^b   De Vos, John ^b   Pavia, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(M013) fissure; Deinogalerix masinii nov. sp.; Galericinae; Insular gigantism; Mikrotia 013; Mikrotia fauna; New species

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

GARGANO PROMONTORY; ITALY; PUGLIA;

AVES; ERINACEIDAE; HYLOMYINAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875518565     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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