Was southern Central America an archipelago or a peninsula in the middle Miocene? A test using land-mammal body size

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 228, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 193-202

  Kirby, Michael Xavier ^a   MacFadden, Bruce ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cucaracha Formation; Land mammal; Miocene; Paleobiogeography; Panama

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CENOZOIC; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 27744460350     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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