Paleoecological comparison between late Miocene localities of China and Greece based on Hipparion faunas

Geodiversitas

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 499-516

  Deng, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Greece; Hipparion fauna; Late miocene; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

CHALICOTHERIIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HIPPARION; MAMMALIA; POACEAE; PRIMATES; RHINOCEROTIDAE;

EID: 33749666645     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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