A NEW LOOK TO PROLAGUS (OCHOTONIDAE, LAGOMORPHA) FROM THE LATE MESSINIAN OF CIABÒT CAGNA (PIEDMONT, NW ITALY)
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https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/5954Keywords:
Prolagus sorbinii, Systematics, Palaeobiogeography, Latest Miocene, NW ItalyAbstract
Ciabòt Cagna (Piedmont, NW Italy) is a post-evaporitic Messinian fossiliferous locality. According to the literature, in Ciabòt Cagna was recorded the ochotonid Prolagus michauxi, but the present revision led to: 1) ascribe it to Prolagus sorbinii, a species present since the beginning of Messinian in continental Italy; 2) exclude a W Europe immigration source of ochotonids into continental Italy during Messinian; 3) and modify the geographical range of P. sorbinii and P. michauxi, which boundary should be W Alps.
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2010-07-31
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