A NEW STEPHANODONT MURINAE (MAMMALIA, RODENTIA) FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF THAILAND AND THE AGE AND PLACE OF THE RATTUS ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN SOUTH EAST-ASIA

Authors
CHAIMANEE Y SUTEETHORN V TRIAMWICHANON S JAEGER JJ
Citation
Y. Chaimanee et al., A NEW STEPHANODONT MURINAE (MAMMALIA, RODENTIA) FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF THAILAND AND THE AGE AND PLACE OF THE RATTUS ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN SOUTH EAST-ASIA, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 322(2), 1996, pp. 155-162
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
322
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
155 - 162
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1996)322:2<155:ANSM(R>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The discovery in Thailand of the first Southeast Asian early Pleistoce ne Murinae indicates a species assemblage very distinct from that of t he extant and middle-late Pleistocene faunas. The most abundant of the se extinct species, Ratchaburimys ruchae n.g. n.sp., is described.