Testing hypotheses of differential mammalian extinctions subsequent to the Great American Biotic Interchange

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 135, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 157-162

  Lessa, Enrique P ^a   Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^b   Fariña, Richard A ^c  

^a Facultad de Ingenieria   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Institute Cle fi'Sica   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Extinction; Late Pleistocene; Lujanian; Rancholabrean

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION PROBABILITY; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031467695     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00042-4     Document Type: Article

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