Evolution of Island Mammals: Adaptation and Extinction of Placental Mammals on Islands

By H. Gregory McDonald. 2013

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Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern Eurasia (2012, background): “The addition of island taxa, mainly in the Mediterranean (Van der Geer et al., 2010), would emphasise the substantial losses of large mammal species in northern Eurasia, and the time-transgressive nature of their extinctions.”
Of mice and mammoths: generality and antiquity of the island rule (2013, methodology): “…Publishing Ltd http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jbi 1427 doi:10.1111/jbi.12096 1977; Azzaroli, 1982; Malatesta, 1985; Roth, 1992; Raia et al., 2003; Palombo, 2004, 2007, 2009; Millien, 2006; Raia & Meiri, 2006; Bromham & Cardillo, 2007; de Vos et al., 2007; van der Geer et al., 2010).”
Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. (2015, methodology): “Williams (1952) mistakenly accepted the name sivalensis as valid, and some recent authors have again begun to use it (e.g., Lapparent de Broin 2002; Karl and Staesche 2007 [misspelled as siwalensis]; Setiyabudi 2009; Claude et al. 2011); however, the valid and available name for this taxon is Megalo”