Taphonomy and palaeoecology of an assemblage of large mammals: Hyaenid activity in the lower Pleistocene site at Venta Micena (Orce, Guadix-Baza basin, Granada, Spain)

Geobios

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1998, Pages 3-47

  Arribas, Alfonso ^a   Palmqvist, Paul ^b  

^a Inst Geol Minero Espana   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone assemblage; Multivariate analysis lower pleistocene; Palaeoecology; Spain; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; PALAEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TAPHONOMY;

SPAIN;

BOVIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIDAE; HOMINIDAE; HYAENA; HYAENIDAE; MAMMALIA; PACHYCROCUTA; PACHYCROCUTA BREVIROSTRIS; RODENTIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 0031797182     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(98)80056-9     Document Type: Article

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