Lower Miocene Suiformes from the northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia, including new evidence for the systematic position of the Sanitheriidae;Suiformes du Miocène inférieur du Nord de la Sperrgebiet, Namibie, et la position systématique des Sanitheriidae

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

Volumn 325, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 285-292

  Pickford, Martin ^a,b  

^a Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Miocene; Morphology; Namibia; Suiformes; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACOTHERIIDAE; SUIDAE; SUIFORMES;

ARTIODACTYLA; MIOCENE; SANITHERIIDAE; SUIFORMES; SYSTEMATICS;

NAMIBIA, SPERRGEBIET;

EID: 0031423321     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(97)88302-4     Document Type: Article

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