Remains of straight-tusked elephant, Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Falc. and Caut. (1847) ESR-dated to oxygen isotope Stage 6 from Grevena (W. Macedonia, Greece)

Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 117-139

  Tsoukala, Evangelia ^a   Lister, Adrian ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Elephant; Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus; ESR dating; Greece; Mammalia; Pleistocene; Refugium

Indexed keywords

PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; VERTEBRATE;

GREECE;

ELEPHAS ANTIQUUS; PALAEOLOXODON;

EID: 0032426203     PISSN: 03757633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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