Miocene fish faunas from the northwestern Amazonia basin (Colombia, Peru, Brazil) with evidence of marine incursions

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 143, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 31-50

  Monsch, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Marine transgressions; Miocene; Palaeoecology; Pisces; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ICHTHYOFAUNA; MIOCENE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032582442     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00064-9     Document Type: Article

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