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Genus Apodemus In The Pleistocene Of Central Europe: When Did The Extant Taxa Appear?

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Knitlová, Markéta, Horáček, Ivan (2017): Genus Apodemus In The Pleistocene Of Central Europe: When Did The Extant Taxa Appear? Fossil Imprint 73 (3-4): 460-481, DOI: 10.2478/if-2017-0024, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/if-2017-0024

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