Faunal turnovers of Palaeogene mammals from the Mongolian Plateau

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6691, 1998, Pages 364-367

  Meng, Jin ^a   McKenna, Malcolm C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PALEOGENE;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; MAMMAL; MONGOLIA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA, MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 0032560763     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28603     Document Type: Article

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