Deer fauna from Pleistocene and Holocene localities of Ecuador (South America)

Geobios

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 631-645

  Tomiati, Camilla ^a   Abbazzi, Laura ^b  

^a Univ degli studi di Firenze ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervidae; Ecuador; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; South America; Systematics

Indexed keywords

DEER; MORPHOLOGY; QUATERNARY; TAXONOMY;

ECUADOR;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS SALINAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0036762854     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00075-X     Document Type: Article

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