Preliminary results of new excavations at Arrisdrift, middle Miocene of southern Namibia

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 322, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 991-996

  Pickford, Martin ^a   Senut, Brigitte ^b   Mein, Pierre ^c   Gommery, Dominique ^d   Morales, Jorge ^c   Soria, Dolores ^c   Nieto, Manuel ^e   Ward, John ^f  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Institut de Paleontologie   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^f Ore Reserves Department   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Fauna; Middle Miocene; Namibia

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PALAEOECOLOGY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

NAMIBIA, ARRISDRIFT;

EID: 0029767613     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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