An early Pliocene hipparionine horse from the Canadian Arctic

Palaeontology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1017-1025

  Hulbert Jr , Richard C ^a   Harington, C Richard ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; PLIOCENE; TAXONOMY;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; PERISSODACTYLA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 0033507566     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00108     Document Type: Article

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