Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene rodents from the northern Borchers Badlands (Meade County, Kansas), with comments on the Blancan-Irvingtonian boundary in the Meade Basin

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 985-1001

  Martin, Robert A ^a   Hurt, Ryan T ^a   Honey, James G ^b   Peláez Campomanes, Pablo ^c  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BADLANDS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RODENT; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY;

KANSAS; MEADE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

ALILEPUS; CYNOMYS; FRAXINUS; GEOCHELONE; GEOMYS; GEOMYS QUINNI; MICROTUS; MICTOMYS KANSASENSIS; ONDATRA; ONDATRA IDAHOENSIS; ONDATRA ZIBETHICA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; PRODIPODOMYS; REITHRODONTOMYS; REITHRODONTOMYS MOOREI; REITHRODONTOMYS PRATINCOLA; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON CURTISI; SIGMODON MINOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141537331     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0985:LPAEPR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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