Microfaunal remains from a modern east African raptor roost: Patterning and implications for fossil bone scatters

Paleobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 483-503

  Stewart, Kathlyn M ^a   Leblanc, Leola ^b   Matthiesen, Diana P ^c   West, Jolee ^d  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FISH; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PREDATION; SCATTERING;

AFRICA;

HALIAEETUS;

EID: 0033500856     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300020340     Document Type: Article

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