Tracks, trails and trampling by large vertebrates in a rift valley paleo-wetland, lowermost bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

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Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 23-32

  Ashley, Gail M ^a   Liutkus, Cynthia M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippo trail; Olduvai Gorge; Paleo wetland; Trampling

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; TRACKWAY; VERTEBRATE; WETLAND;

TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036972178     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420940216407     Document Type: Article

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