THE FIRST RECORD OF EOTHENOMYS (ARVICOLINAE, CRICETIDAE, RODENTIA) FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OF VIETNAM

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Abstract

The Oriental vole Eothenomys eleusis (Thomas, 1911) is identified from the Middle Pleistocene Tham Hai cave locality in northern Vietnam (Lang Son Province) based on isolated teeth. This is the first record of the Pleistocene Arvicolinae in Vietnam and the first fossil find of Eothenomys outside of China.

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A. V. Lopatin

Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, Moscow

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