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| Reumer, J.W.F.; Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den. |
| The number of known sciurid and petauristid fossils from The Netherlands is nearly doubled with the description of material from the Zuurland boreholes, the Maasvlakte, and the Tegelen claypit. The material from Tegelen is assigned to a new species of flying squirrel, Hylopetes debruijni nov. sp. One molar from the late Early Pleistocene of the Zuurland borehole is assigned to Sciurus cf. S. vulgaris. The remaining finds from the Tiglian of the Zuurland boreholes, as well as the single molar from the Maasvlakte, are all assigned to Spermophilus primigenius; this name is preferred over the suggestive use of names of recent ground squirrels for fossil material. The presence, during roughly the same stratigraphic interval, of a flying squirrel in Tegelen and... |
| Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: New taxon; Tiglian; Pleistocene; Hylopetes; Sciurus; Spermophilus; The Netherlands; 38.22; 42.84. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/328009 |
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