BIBLIOGRAPHY
     
 

Small Mammals

Chronological

 
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AGUILAR, J.-P., J. MICHAUX and V. LAZZARI (2007). "Lo Fournas 16-M (Upper Miocene) and Lo Fournas 16-P (Middle Pliocene), news karstic localities to Baixas, southern France. Part. II - new rodens [rodents], faunal list, and comment on the use of karstic faunas in biochronology." Geologie de la France 1: 63-81

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AGUSTI, J., O. OMS, M. FURIO, M.-J. PEREZ-VILA and E. ROCA (2006). "The Messinian terrestrial record in the Pyrenees: the case of Can Vilella (Cerdanya Basin)." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 238 (1-4): 5-14

ALBA, D. M., S. MOYÀ-SOLÀ, I. CASANOVAS-VILAR, J. GALINDO, J. M. ROBLES, C. ROTGERS, M. FURIÓ, C. ANGELONE, M. KÖHLER and M. GARCÉS (2006). "Los vertebrados fósiles del Abocador de Can Mata (els Hostalets de Pierola, l’Anoia, Cataluña), una sucesión de localidades del Aragoniense superior (MN6 y MN7+ 8) de la cuenca del Vallès-Penedès. Campañas 2002-2003, 2004 y 2005." Estudios Geológicos 62 (1): 295-312

ALBA, D. M., J. M. ROBLES, C. ROTGERS, I. CASANOVAS-VILAR, J. GALINDO, S. MOYÀ-SOLÀ, M. GARCÉS, L. CABRERA, M. FURIÓ, R. CARMONA and J. V. BERTÓ MENGUAL (2009). "Middle Miocene vertebrate localities from Abocador de Can Mata (Els Hostalets de Pierola, Vallès Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain): an update after the 2006-2008 field campaigns." Paleolusitana 1: 59-73

ALVAREZ-SIERRA, M. A., I. GARCIA PAREDES and P. PELAEZ-CAMPOMANES (2006). "Middle Miocene rodents from the Tarazona area (Ebro Basin, Spain)." Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30: 5-13

AMBROSE, S. H., C. J. BELL, R. L. BERNOR, J.-R. BOISSERIE, C. M. DARWENT, D. DEGUSTA, A. DEINO, N. GARCIA, Y. HAILE-SELASSIE, J. J. HEAD, F. C. HOWELL, M. D. KYULE, F. K. MANTHI, E. M. MATHU, C. M. NYAMAI, H. SAEGUSA, T. A. STIDHAM, M. A. J. WILLIAMS and L. J. HLUSKO (2007). "The paleoecology and paleogeographic context of Lemudong'o locality 1, a late Miocene terrestrial fossil site in southern Kenya." Kirtlandia 56: 38-52

ANGELONE, C. (2007). "Messinian Prolagus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha) of Italy." Geobios 40 (3): 407-421

ANGELONE, C. (2008). "Contribution of Complex Discrete Fourier Transform (CDFT) analysis to the systematics of the genus Prolagus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha, Mammalia)." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie-Abhandlungen 249 (2): 129-138

ANGELONE, C. (2008). "Prolagus italicus n. sp. (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha), a new Pliocene species of peninsular Italy." Geobios 41 (4): 445-453

ANGELONE, C. and L. ROOK (2009). "Alilepus n. sp., a new leporid (Lagomorpha) from the early Messinian of Tuscany (central western Italy)." RCMNS.

ANGELONE, C. and C. SESE (2009). "New characters for species discrimination within the genus Prolagus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha, Mammalia)." Journal of Paleontology 83 (1): 80-88

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BERNOR, R. L., L. KORDOS and L. ROOK (2005). "An introduction to the multidisciplinary research at Rudabánya." Palaeontographia Italica 90: 9-10

BIENVENU, T., C. CHARLES, F. GUY, V. LAZZARI and L. VIRIOT (2008). "Diversity and evolution of the molar radicular complex in murine rodents (Murinae, Rodentia)." Archives of Oral Biology 53 (11): 1030-1036

BOVER, P., J. QUINTANA and J. A. ALCOVER (2008). "Three islands, three worlds: paleogeography and evolution of the vertebrate fauna from the Balearic Islands." Quaternary International 182: 135-144

CASANOVAS-VILAR, I. (2007). The Rodent Assemblages from the Late Aragonian and the Vallesian (Middle to Late Miocene) of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, Spain). PhD. Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 283

CASANOVAS-VILAR, I. and J. AGUSTI (2007). "Ecogeographical stability and climate forcing in the late Miocene (Vallesian) rodent record of Spain." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 248 (1-2): 169-189

CASANOVAS-VILAR, I., D. M. ALBA, S. ALMÉCIJA, J. M. ROBLES, J. GALINDO and S. MOYÀ-SOLÀ (2008). "Taxonomy and Paleobiology of the Genus Chalicomys Kaup, 1832 (Rodentia, Castoridae), with the Description of a New Species from Abocador De Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (3): 851-862

CASANOVAS-VILAR, I., D. M. ALBA, M. KÖHLER and S. MOYÀ-SOLÀ (2008). "When sleep or hide makes the difference in macroevolution." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (35): E56

CASANOVAS-VILAR, I., M. FURIO and J. AGUSTI (2006). "Rodents, insectivores and paleoenvironment associated to the first-appearing hipparionine horses in the Valles-Pene-des Basin (northeastern Spain)." Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30: 89-107

CASANOVAS-VILAR, I., I. GARCIA-PAREDES, D. M. ALBA, L. W. V. OSTENDE and S. MOYA-SOLA (2010). "The European Far West: Miocene mammal isolation, diversity and turnover in the Iberian Peninsula." Journal of Biogeography 37 (6): 1079-1093

ČERMÁK, S. and L. I. REKOVETS (2010). "Early Pliocene ochotonids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) from Southern Ukraine." Geodiversitas 32 (1): 107-120

CHARLES, C., V. LAZZARI, P. TAFFOREAU, T. SCHIMMANG, M. TEKIN, O. KLEIN and L. VIRIOT (2009). "Modulation of Fgf3 dosage in mouse and men mirrors evolution of mammalian dentition." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (52): 22364-22368

COLANGELO, P., A. A. BANNIKOVA, B. KRYSTUFEK, V. S. LEBEDEV, F. ANNESI, E. CAPANNA and A. LOY (2010). "Molecular systematics and evolutionary biogeography of the genus Talpa (Soricomorpha: Talpidae)." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55 (2): 372-380

COSTEUR, L. (2005). "Cenogram analysis of the Rudabanya mammalian community: palaeoenvironmental interpretations." Palaeontographia Italica 90: 303-308

COSTEUR, L., S. MONTUIRE, S. LEGENDRE and O. MARIDET (2007). "The Messinian event: What happened to the peri-Mediterranean mammalian communities and local climate?" Geobios 40 (3): 423-431

DARWENT, C. M. (2007). "Lagomorphs (Mammalia) from late Miocene deposits at Lemudong'o, southern Kenya." Kirtlandia 56: 112-120

DAXNER-HOCK, G. (2005). "Eomyidae and Gliridae from Rudabánya." Palaeontographia Italica 90: 149-162

DOUKAS, C. S. and L. W. VAN DEN HOEK OSTENDE (2006). "Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha; Mammalia) from Karydia and Komotini (Thrace, Greece; MN 4/5)." Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30: 109-131

DUBEY, S., K. KOYASU, R. PARAPANOV, M. RIBI, R. HUTTERER and P. VOGEL (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics reveals messinian, pliocene, and pleistocene colonizations of islands by north African shrews." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47 (2): 877-882

DUBEY, S., N. SALAMIN, M. RUEDI, P. BARRIERE, M. COLYN and P. VOGEL (2008). "Biogeographic origin and radiation of the Old World crocidurine shrews (Mammalia : Soricidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear genes." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48 (3): 953-963

ERBAJEVA, M. A., L. J. FLYNN, L. CHUANKUI and L. MARCUS (2006). "New Late Cenozoic ochotonids from China." Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30: 133-141

ERBAJEVA, M. A. and S. ZHENG (2005). "New data on Late Miocene-Pleistocene ochotonids (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha) from North China." Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 48A (1-2): 93-117

FLYNN, L. J. (2009). "The Antiquity of Rhizomys and Independent Acquisition of Fossorial Traits in Subterranean Muroids." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (331): 128-156

FLYNN, L. J. and M. E. MORGAN (2005). "An Unusual Diatomyid Rodent from an Infrequently Sampled Late Miocene Interval in the Siwaliks of Pakistan." Palaeontologia Electronica 8 (1): 17A:10p

FOSTOWICZ-FRELIK, Ł. (2010). "A New Species of Pliocene Prolagus (Lagomorpha: Ochotonidae) from Poland is the Northernmost Record of the Genus." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 609-612

FREUDENTHAL, M. and E. MARTIN-SUAREZ (2006). "Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the late Miocene fissure filling Biancone 1 (Gargano, Province of Foggia, Italy)." Palaeontologia Electronica 9 (2): 23 pp.

FREUDENTHAL, M. and E. MARTIN-SUAREZ (2007). "An index for concavity of the occlusal surface of the cheek teeth and an assessment of concavity in Gliridae (Mammalia, Rodentia)." Palaeontologia Electronica 10 (2):

FREUDENTHAL, M. and E. MARTÍN-SUÁREZ (2010). "The age of immigration of the vertebrate faunas found at Gargano (Apulia, Italy) and Scontrone (l'Aquila, Italy)." Comptes Rendus Palevol 9 (3): 95-100

FURIÓ, M., J. AGUSTÍ, A. MOUSKHELISHVILI, Ó. SANISIDRO and A. SANTOS-CUBEDO (2010). "The Paleobiology of the Extinct Venomous Shrew Beremendia (Soricidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) in Relation to the Geology and Paleoenvironment of Dmanisi (Early Pleistocene, Georgia)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (3): 928-942

FURIO, M. and P. MEIN (2008). "A new species of Deinsdorfia (Soricidae, Insectivora, Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Spain." Comptes Rendus Palevol 7 (6): 347-359

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, J. M. MARTIN, E. M. SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2008). "Biostratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of Late Miocene and Pliocene continental deposits of the Granada Basin (southern Spain)." Lethaia 41 (4): 431-446

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. MARTIN-SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2007). "New data on Mio-Pliocene Sciuridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from southern Spain." Comptes Rendus Palevol 6 (4): 269-279

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. MARTIN-SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2007). "The southernmost record of fossil Castoridae (Mammalia, Rodentia) in Europe ." Geodiversitas 29 (3): 435-440

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. MARTIN-SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2007). "A late Ruscinian (Pliocene) Rodent fauna from the Granada basin (SE Spain)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (4): 1066-1070

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. MARTIN-SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2008). "Cricetidae and Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene and Pliocene of southern Spain." Scripta Geologica (Leiden) 136: 1-37

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. MARTIN-SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2008). "Muscardinus meridionalis, sp nov., a new species of Gliridae (Rodentia, Mammalia] and its implications for the phylogeny of Muscardinus." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (2): 568-573

GARCIA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. M. SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2008). "Muridae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Mio-Pliocene boundary in the Granada Basin (southern Spain). Biostratigraphic and phylogenetic implications." Neues Jahrbuch Fur Geologie Und Palaontologie-Abhandlungen 248: 183-215

GARCÍA-ALIX, A., R. MINWER-BARAKAT, E. M. SUÁREZ, M. FREUDENTHAL and J. M. MARTÍN (2008). "Late Miocene-Early Pliocene climatic evolution of the Granada Basin (southern Spain) deduced from the paleoecology of the micromammal associations." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 265 (3-4): 214-225

GOMES RODRIGUES, H., G. MERCERON and L. VIRIOT (2009). "Dental microwear patterns of extant and extinct Muridae (Rodentia, Mammalia): ecological implications." Naturwissenschaften 96 (4): 537-542

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HAILE-SELASSIE, Y., A. DEINO, B. SAYLOR, M. UMER and B. LATIMER (2007). "Preliminary geology and paleontology of new hominid-bearing Pliocene localities in the central Afar region of Ethiopia." Anthropological Science 115 (3): 215-222

HAILE-SELASSIE, Y., G. WOLDEGABRIEL, T. D. WHITE, R. L. BERNOR, D. DEGUSTA, P. R. RENNE, W. K. HART, E. VRBA, A. STANLEY and F. C. HOWELL (2004). "Mio-Pliocene mammals from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia." Geobios 37 (4): 536-552

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HIR, J. (2006). "Late Astaracian (Late Sarmatian) lagomorphs and rodents from Felsotarkany-Felnemet (northern Hungary)." Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30: 155-173

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KULLMER, O., O. SANDROCK, T. B. VIOLA, W. HUJER, H. SAID and H. SEIDLER (2008). "Suids, elephantoids, paleochronology, and paleoecology of the Pliocene hominid site Galili, Somali Region, Ethiopia." Palaios 23 (7): 452-464

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LAZZARI, V., C. CHARLES, P. TAFFOREAU, M. VIANEY-LIAUD, J.-P. AGUILAR, J.-J. JAEGER, J. MICHAUX and L. VIRIOT (2008). "Mosaic convergence of rodent dentitions." PLoS One 3 (10): e3607

LECOMPTE, E., K. APLIN, C. DENYS, F. CATZEFLIS, M. CHADES and P. CHEVRET (2008). "Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily." BMC Evolutionary Biology 8 (199): 1-21

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LÓPEZ-ANTOÑANZAS, R. and P. MEIN (2010). "First detailed description of Hispanomys bijugatus Mein and Freudenthal, 1971 (Rodentia, Cricetodontinae) from the Upper Aragonian of La Grive-Saint Alban (France): Biostratigraphical implications." Geobios 42 (6): 783-796

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LOPEZ-MARTINEZ, N., A. LIKIUS, H. T. MACKAYE, P. VIGNAUD and M. BRUNEL (2007). "A new Lagomorph from the late Miocene of Chad (central Africa)." Revista Espanola de Paleontologia 22 (1): 1-20

LOUCHART, A., H. WESSELMAN, R. J. BLUMENSCHINE, L. J. HLUSKO, J. K. NJAU, M. T. BLACK, M. ASNAKE and T. D. WHITE (2009). "Taphonomic, Avian, and Small-Vertebrate Indicators of Ardipithecus ramidus Habitat." Science 326 (5949): 66-664

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MASINI, F., D. PETRUSO, L. BONFIGLIO and G. MANGANO (2008). "Origination and extinction patterns of mammals in three central Western Mediterranean islands from the Late Miocene to Quaternary." Quaternary International 182: 63-79

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MATTHEWS, T., C. DENYS and J. E. PARKINGTON (2007). "Community evolution of Neogene micromammals from Langebaanweg 'E' Quarry and other west coast fossil sites, south-western Cape, South Africa." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 245 (3-4): 332-352

MINWER-BARAKAT, R., A. GARCIA-ALIX, J. AGUSTI, E. MARTIN SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2009). "The micromammal fauna from Negratin-1 (Guadix Basin, southern Spain): new evidence of African-iberian mammal exchanges during the Late Miocene." Journal of Paleontology 83 (6): 854-879

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MINWER-BARAKAT, R., A. GARCÍA-ALIX, S. MARTÍN, ELVIRA and M. FREUDENTHAL (2008). "The Latest Ruscinian and Early Villanyian Arvicolinae from Southern Spain Re-Examined: Biostratigraphical Implications." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (3): 841-850

MINWER-BARAKAT, R., A. GARCIA-ALIX, E. MARTIN-SUAREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2007). "Blairoides aliciae sp. nov., a new Soricidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla) from the Pliocene of Spain." Comptes Rendus Palevol 6 (4): 281-289

MINWER-BARAKAT, R., A. GARCÍA-ALIX, E. MARTÍN-SUÁREZ and M. FREUDENTHAL (2009). "Late Turolian micromammals from Rambla de Chimeneas-3: considerations on the oldest continental faunas from the Guadix Basin (Southern Spain)." Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 251: 95-108

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