First highly stratified prehistoric vertebrate sequence from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pacific Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-143

  Steadman, David W ^a   Deleon, Valerie Burke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CAVE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; VERTEBRATE;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0032693996     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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