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Microtus parmaleei Martin et al. 2011

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 12,510 + 80 14C years B.P. (Martin et al. 2011)

 

Distribution

Sand Creek, Meade County, Kansas, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Martin, Robert A., Peláez-Campomanes, Pablo and Honey, James G. (2011). Preliminary study of rodents from the Golliher B Assemblage of Meade County, Kansas, USA indicates an intense cold period near the end of the Pleistocene. Palaeontologia Electronica 14.3.35A.

 

Other references:

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: Biological Sciences 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]

 

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