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Ochotona whartoni Guthrie & Matthews, 1971

Wharton's pika

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

North America

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Mead, J. I. (1987). Quaternary records of pika, Ochotona, in North America. Boreas 16: 165-171. [Abstract]

Mead, J. I. and Grady, F. (1996). Ochotona (Lagomorpha) from Late Quaternary Cave Deposits in Eastern North America. Quaternary Research 45(1): 93-101. [Abstract]

Savage, H. (1994). Prehistoric fauna in a vertical fissure cave in the Niagara Escarpment, Dufferin County, Ontario, in MacDonald, R.I., ed., Great Lakes Archaeology and Paleoecology: Exploring Interdisciplinary Initiatives for the Nineties: Proceedings of a Symposium presented by the Quaternary Sciences Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, September 21–22, 1991, Waterloo Ontario, Quaternary Sciences Institute publication 10.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]

 

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