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| Baluchimyinae, a new ctenodactyloid rodent subfamily from the Miocene of Baluchistan. American Museum novitates ; no. 2841 |
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| Title: | Baluchimyinae, a new ctenodactyloid rodent subfamily from the Miocene of Baluchistan. American Museum novitates ; no. 2841 |
| Authors: | Flynn, Lawrence J. (Lawrence John), 1932- Jacobs, Louis L. Cheema, Iqbal Umer. |
| Issue Date: | 1986 |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates ; no. 2841 |
| Abstract: | "Rodents from early Miocene deposits near Dera Bugti, Baluchistan, Pakistan, represent an endemic radiation of ctenodactyloids in the Indian subcontinent. The Bugti small mammal fauna contrasts sharply with other known middle Cenozoic faunas, but most taxa can be referred to the Chapattimyidae, a family known previously from Eocene deposits of the Indian subcontinent. Four new genera, Baluchimys, Lindsaya, Lophibaluchia, and Hodsahibia are placed in the new subfamily Baluchimyinae. The Baluchimyinae and the new genus Fallomus are placed in the redefined Chapattimyidae. An additional, rare element in the Bugti fauna, Downsimys margolisi new genus and species, is named without referral to family, but affinities may lie with chapattimyids or cylindrodontids. A single large tooth resembles specimens from Qujing, Yunnan, China, that are referred to the yuomyid Dianomys. The Bugti fauna must be considered in formulating hypotheses of relationships of higher rodent taxa and in biogeographic r... |
| Description: | 58 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-58). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3576 |
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