Highlighting the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition in Italian and French large-mammal faunas: Similarities and faunal renewals

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 247, Issue , 2005, Pages 263-276

  Palombo, Maria Rita ^a,b   Valli, Andrea M F ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 31444440168     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2005.247.01.15     Document Type: Article

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