Marked ecological shifts during 6.2-2.4 Ma revealed by a terrestrial molluscan record from the Chinese Red Clay Formation and implication for palaeoclimatic evolution

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 233, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 287-299

  Wu, Naiqin ^a   Pei, Yunpeng ^a   Lu, Houyuan ^a   Guo, Zhengtang ^a,b   Li, Fengjiang ^a   Liu, Tungsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Late Miocene Pliocene; Mollusk groups; Palaeoclimatic evolution; Red Clay

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; ECOLOGY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIOCENE; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 33645852592     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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