Body size variability and a Sangamonian extinction model for Amblyrhiza, a West Indian megafaunal rodent

Quaternary Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 80-89

  McFarlane, Donald A ^a   MacPhee, Ross D E ^b   Ford, Derek C ^c  

^a The Claremont Colleges   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION; QUATERNARY; RODENT;

ANGUILLA;

AMBLYRHIZA; AMBLYRHIZA INUNDATA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032443139     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.1977     Document Type: Article

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