Biostratigraphic surveys in the Siwaliks of Pakistan: A method for standardized surface sampling of the vertebrate fossil record

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^a   Barry, John C ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Miocene; Pakistan; Paleoecology; Sampling methods; Siwaliks; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27544440223     PISSN: 10948074     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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