The Tinguiririca Fauna, Chile: Biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American Land Mammal 'Age'

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 195, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 229-259

  Flynn, John J ^a   Wyss, André R ^b   Croft, Darin A ^a   Charrier, Reynaldo ^c  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Biochronology; Cenozoic; Geochronology; Mammalia; Paleoecology; South America

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CENOZOIC; FAUNA; MAMMAL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

CHILE;

ARCHAEOHYRAX; ARGENTINA (FISH); CAVIOMORPHA; KLOHNIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PATAGONIA; PSEUDHYRAX; RODENTIA; THERIA;

EID: 0037533928     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00360-2     Document Type: Article

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