A middle pleistocene vertebrate fossil assemblage from Cathedral cave, Naracoorte, South Australia

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 91-104

  Brown, Steven P ^a   Wells, Roderick T ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cathedral Cave; Fossil assemblage; Middle Pleistocene; Naracoorte; Pitfall trap; Taphonomy; U series dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042829670     PISSN: 00855812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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