Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6966, 2003, Pages 549-552

  Kappelman, John ^a   Rasmussen, D Tab ^b   Sanders, William J ^c   Feseha, Mulugeta ^a   Bown, Thomas ^d   Copeland, Peter ^e   Crabaugh, Jeff ^f   Fleagle, John ^g   Glantz, Michelle ^h   Gordon, Adam ^a   Jacobs, Bonnie ⁱ   Maga, Murat ^a   Muldoon, Kathleen ^b   Pan, Aaron ⁱ   Pyne, Lydia ^a   Richmond, Brian ^j   Ryan, Timothy ^k   Seiffert, Erik R ^k   Sen, Sevket ^l   Todd, Lawrence ^h   Wiemann, Michael C ^m   Winkler, Alisa ^i,n   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d University of Houston ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^g STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^m FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY;

FAUNAL EXCHANGE; MAMMALS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AFRICA; ARAB; ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARABIA; ASIA; BIODIVERSITY; ETHIOPIA; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MAMMALS; TOOTH;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

HYRACOIDEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347386406     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02102     Document Type: Article

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