New forms of equids in Western Europe and palaeoenvironmental changes

Geobios

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-284

  Caloi, Lucia ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equids; Palaeoecology; Plio Pleistocene; Systematics; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

EQUID; GLACIATION; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SYSTEMATICS;

ASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EQUUS; EQUUS STENONIS;

EID: 0031459279     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(97)80233-1     Document Type: Article

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