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Microtus eleniae
Taxonomy
Microtus eleniae was named by van der Meulen and Doukas (2001). Its type specimen is TB2 709, a tooth (lower first molar), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tourkovounia 2, which is in a Pleistocene fissure fill horizon in Greece.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2001 | Microtus eleniae van der Meulen and Doukas p. 266 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Microtus eleniae van der Meulen and Doukas 2001
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. J. van der Meulen and C. S. Doukas 2001 | Small sized species (mean length ml = 2.90 mm.) of Microtus (Tibericola) von Koenigswald, Fejfar et Tchemov, 1992, with hintonid AC, confluent T4—T5 of ml, and usually confluent T2-T3 of M3 |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1999, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Samuels and Van Valkenburgh 2008 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.78100 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Greece | Microtus eleniae (type locality: 34767) |