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Pliomys lenki (Heller, 1930)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Europe (incl. France, Italy & Spain)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Alcalde Gurt, Gabriel. (1982). Presència interessant de Pliomys lenki i de Microtus oeconumus en el reompliment de la cova dels Ermitons (La Garrotxa, Girona). Acta Geológica Hispánica  17(4): 281-282.

Cuenca-Bescós, G., Straus, L. G., García-Pimienta, J. C., Morales, M. G. and López-García, J. M. (2010). Late Quaternary small mammal turnover in the Cantabrian Region: The extinction of Pliomys lenki (Rodentia, Mammalia). Quaternary International 212(2): 129-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.006

Ferraris, M., Sala, B. and Scola, V. (1990). The late Pleistocene fauna with Pliomys lenki from the Ghiacciaia cave loess (Northern Italy). Quaternary international 5: 71-79.

Pokines, J. T. (1998). A late survival of Pliomys lenki (Heller, 1930) in Cantabrian Spain. Mammalia 62(1): 143-145.

 

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