Pleistocene evolutionary trends in dental morphology of mimomys savini (rodentia, mammalia) from iberian peninsula and discussion about the origin of the genus arvicola

Quaternaire

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 179-190

  Lozano Fernândez, Ivan ^a,b   Agusti, Jordi ^b,c   Cuenca BescÔs, Gloria ^d   Blain, Hugues Alexandre ^a,b   LÔPez Garcia, Juan Manuel ^e   Vallverdü, Josep ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evolutionary trends; Iberian peninsula; Lower pleistocene; Middle pleistocene; Mimomys savini

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLEISTOCENE; RODENT;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

ARVICOLA; MAMMALIA; MIMOMYS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84880094936     PISSN: 11422904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4000/quaternaire.6587     Document Type: Article

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