Ecological diversity and community ecology in the Fayum sequence (Egypt)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 133-160

  Gagnon, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropoid origins; Ecological diversity; Eocene; Oligocene; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; UNGULATA; ANIMALIA;

ANTHROPOID; EOCENE; FOSSIL MAMMAL; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MAMMAL COMMUNITY; OLIGOCENE; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PALAEOGENE; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; ECOLOGY; EGYPT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MAMMAL;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DIET; ECOLOGY; EGYPT; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EGYPT, FAYUM, JEBEL QATRANI;

EID: 0031064899     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1996.0107     Document Type: Article

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