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Micromys caesaris, a new murid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Late Pliocene of the Guadix Basin, southeastern Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Raef Minwer-Barakat ,
Antonio García-Alix ,
Elvira Martín-Suárez  and
Matthijs Freudenthal
Raef Minwer-Barakat
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain, , , ,
Antonio García-Alix
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain, , , ,
Elvira Martín-Suárez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain, , , ,
Matthijs Freudenthal
Affiliation:
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain, , , ,
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The Genus Micromys includes a single extant species, Micromys minutus (Pallas, 1771), which lives in Europe and North Asia. This genus is known in the fossil record since the late Miocene; eight fossil species have been described in Europe and Asia, most of them of late Miocene and early Pliocene age. The evolution of this genus during the late Pliocene is barely known. Although it is present in numerous localities of this age, remains of Micromys are usually scarce and generally assigned to the species M. minutus or M. praeminutus Kretzoi, 1959.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , March 2008 , pp. 436 - 441
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