Origins and setting: Mammal quaternary palaeontology in the Eastern Highlands of New South Wales

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales

Volumn 1997, Issue 117, 1997, Pages 197-222

  Ride, W D L ^a   Davis, A C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cave fossils; Megafauna; Mitchell; Owen; Paleoclimatology; Quaternary

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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