Pleistocene palaeoecology and environmental change on the Darling Downs, southeastern Queensland, Australia

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 171-201

  Price, Gilbert J ^a   Sobbe, Ian H ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Darling Downs; Habitat change; Kings Creek catchment; Megafauna; Pleistocene; Sedimentology; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

ANURA; CHELIDAE; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; SQUAMATA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22044445668     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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