Skull characteristics of two proboscideans from the Upper Siwalik Subgroup of Nepal

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 89-110

  Nanda, Avinash C ^a   Corvinus, Gudrun ^b,c  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b Box 180   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEONTOLOGY; SKULL;

NEPAL;

EID: 0042905923     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/217/2000/89     Document Type: Article

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