A new species of lemming from the Eopleistocene of North East Siberia (Mammalia: Cricetidae)

N.I. Abramson

Abstract. Lemmus sheri sp. n. from the Eopleistocene of NE Siberia is described and compared with other species of the genus.

Zoosystematica Rossica, 1992, 1(1): 156–160 ▪ Published in print 10 March 1993

PDF-file is unavailable

References

Abramson, N.I. 1986 The pecularities of structure and functioning of masticatory apparatus of true (Lemmini) and collared (Dicrostonychini) lemmings (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Trudy zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 156: 98-115. (In Russian).

Abramson, N.I. (in press). Evolutionary trends in the dentition of true lemmings (Lemmini, Cricetidae, Rodentia): Functional-adaptive analysis. J. Zool., London.

Carls, N. & Rabeder, G. 1988. Die Arvicoliden (Rodentia, Mammalia) aus dem Ältest-Pleistozän von Schernfeld (Bayern). Beitr. Paläontol. Österreich., 14:123-237.

Gileva, E.A., Kuznetzova, I.A. & Cheprakov, M.I. 1984. Chromosome number and systematics of true lemmings (Lemmus). Zool. Zh., 63(1): 105-114. (In Russian).

Harrison, D.L., Bates, P.J.J. & Clay den, L.D. 1989. Occurence of Lemmus kowalskii Carls & Rabeder, 1988 (Rodentia: Microtinae: Lemmus) in the Lower Pleistocene of East Anglia. Acta theriol., 34(3): 55-65. https://doi.org/10.4098/AT.arch.89-3

Koenigswald, W. & Martin, L.D. 1984. Revision of the fossil and recent Lemminae (Rodentia, Mammalia). Carnegie Mus. nat. Hist. spec. Publ., 9: 123-137.

Kowalski, K. 1977. Fossil lemmings (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the Pliocene and early Pleistocene of Poland. Acta zool. cracov., 22(7): 297-317.

Sher, A.V., Virina, E.I. & Zazhigin, V.S. 1977. Stratigraphy, paleomagnetism and fauna of mammals of the Pliocene - Upper Quaternary beds in the Kolyma lower reaches. Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 234(5): 1171-1174. (In Russian).

Virina, E.I., Zazhigin, V.S. & Sher, A.V. 1984. Paleomagnetic characteristic of type localities of Oler faunistic complex (Kolymskaya lowland). Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR (Geology), 11: 61-72.

Vorontsov, N.N. 1982. Lower cricetids (Cricetidae) of the world fauna. Part I. Morphology and ecology. Fauna SSSR. Mammals. Vol.3, No. 6. 449 p. Leningrad. (In Russian).

Volume, Year: