Taxonomic abundance at Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene cave in South China

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-359

  Bekken, Deborah ^a   Schepartz, Lynne A ^b   Miller Antonio, Sari ^c   Hou, Yamei ^d   Huang, Weiwen ^d  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ailuropoda Stegodon fauna; Hominid; Middle Pleistocene; South China

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAVE; FAUNA; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; PANXIAN DADONG; WORLD;

EID: 11844280829     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2004.0019     Document Type: Article

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