Sardolutra ichnusae Malatesta, 1977
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene or Holocene
Distribution
Sardinia, Italy
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Malatesta, A. (1977). The skeleton of Nesolutra ichnusae sp. n. a Quaternary otter discovered in Sardinia. Geol. Romana 16: 173-209.
Other references:
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
Cherin, Marco, Lurino, Dawid Adam, Willemsen, Gerard and Carnevale, Giorgio. (2016). A new otter from the Early Pleistocene of Pantalla (Italy), with remarks on the evolutionary history of Mediterranean Quaternary Lutrinae (Carnivora, Mustelidae). Quaternary Science Reviews 135: 92-102. [Abstract]
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.
Willemsen, G. F. (1992). A revision of Pliocene and Quaternary Lutrinae from Europe. Scripta Geol. 101: 1-115.