A partial short-faced bear skeleton from an Ozark Cave with comments on the paleobiology of the species

Journal of Cave and Karst Studies

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 101-110

  Schubert, Blaine W ^a,b   Kaufmann, James E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CAVE DEPOSIT; PALEOBIOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

UNITED STATES;

ARCTODUS SIMUS;

EID: 0142072591     PISSN: 10906924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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