Recent advances in South American mammalian paleontology

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 449-454

  Flynn, John J ^a   Wyss, André R ^b  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY;

CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXONOMY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CAVIOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032212852     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01457-8     Document Type: Review

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