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Algarolutra majori Malatesta, 1978

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Corsica & Sardinia, Italy

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Malatesta, A. (1978). On the genus Cyrnaonyx Helbing, 1935 (Mustelidae, Lutrinae) and its type species. Quaternaria 20: 109-116.

 

Other references:

Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.

Helbing, H. (1935). Cyrnaonyx antiqua (Blainv.), ein Lutrinaeaus dem europaeischen Pleistocaen. Eclogae Geol. Helv. 27: 443-457.

Malatesta, A. (1970). Cynotherium sardous Studiati an extinct canid from the Pleistocene of Sardinia. Mem. ist. It. Pal. Uni., N S, 1: 1-72.

Malatesta, A. & Willemsen, G. F. (1986). Algarolutra g.n. established for a fossil otter of the Sardinia island. Geologica Romana 25: 285-286.

Symeonides, N. and Sondaar, P. Y. (1975). A new otter from the Pleistocene of Crete - Annales géologiques des Pays Helléniques 27: 11-24

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.

Willemsen, G.F. (1992). A revision of Pliocene and Quaternary Lutrinae from Europe. Scripta Geol. 101: 1-115.

 

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