Prey selection by terrestrial carnivores in a lower Pleistocene paleocommunity

Paleobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 514-534

  Palmqvist, Paul ^a   Martinez Navarro, Bienvenido ^b   Arribas, Alfonso ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontologia   (Spain)

^c Inst Geol Minero Espana   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; CANIS FALCONERI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIDAE; HOMOTHERIUM; HOMOTHERIUM LATIDENS; HYAENA; HYAENIDAE; LATIDENS; MAMMALIA; MEGANTEREON; MEGANTEREON WHITEI; PACHYCROCUTA; PACHYCROCUTA BREVIROSTRIS; UNGULATA;

CARNIVORE; HYAENID; MAMMAL; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PREY SELECTION; QUATERNARY (EARLY); SCAVENGER; SCAVENGING; TAPHONOMY;

SPAIN, ANDALUCIA, VENTA MICENA;

EID: 0030416663     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S009483730001650X     Document Type: Article

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