Feeding ecology, dispersal, and extinction of South American Pleistocene gomphotheres (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea)

Paleobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 146-161

  Sánchez, Begona ^a   Prado, José Luis ^b   Alberdi, María Teresa ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

CUVIERONIUS; GOMPHOTHERIIDAE; PROBOSCIDEA;

EID: 1642293416     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2004)030<0146:FEDAEO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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