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Ancient voles (Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the pleistocene of the central Altai

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Early Pleistocene small mammals are found in the Paleolithic site of Ust’-Kanskaya Cave (central Altai, Russia). Descriptions, measurements, and figures of teeth of nine vole species, Prolagurus ternopolitanus (Topachevsky, 1973), P. pannonicus (Kormos, 1930), Mimomys intermedius (Newton, 1881), M. pusillus (Mehely, 1914), Allophaiomys deucalion Kretzoi, 1969, A. pliocaenicus Kormos, 1932, Microtus gregaloides (Hinton, 1923), Microtus hintoni (Kretzoi, 1941), and Altaiomys ustkanicus Serdyuk et Tesakov, 2006, are provided.

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Serdyuk, 2010, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, No. 3, pp. 88–98.

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Serdyuk, N.V. Ancient voles (Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the pleistocene of the central Altai. Paleontol. J. 44, 337–347 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030110030147

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