A small tapir from the Turolian of Kreka (Bosnia) and a discussion on the biogeography and stratigraphy of the Neogene tapirs

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-240

  Van Der Made, Jan ^a,b   Stefanovic, Ivan ^a,c  

^a Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales ^*

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c Faculty of Mining and Geology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climatic change; Hominoidea; Miocene; Pliocene; Tapir; Tapiridae; Tapiriscus pannonicus; Tapirvacuum; Vallesian Crisis

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEOGENE; PALEOCLIMATE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; STRATIGRAPHY; TUROLIAN; UNGULATE;

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA;

HOMO; PLIOPITHECIDAE; TAPIRIDAE; TAPIRUS; VALLESIA;

EID: 33746190585     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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