Mammals from the end of the age of dinosaurs in North Dakota and southeastern Montana, with a reappraisal of geographic differentiation among Lancian mammals

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 191-216

  Hunter, John P ^a   Archibald, J David ^b  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

COASTAL PLAIN; DINOSAUR EXTINCTION; HIGHER LATITUDES; NEW STUDY; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH DAKOTA; PALEOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES;

MAMMALS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COASTAL PLAIN; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION RISK; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PALEOCENE; VERTEBRATE;

MONTANA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN INTERIOR;

EID: 33750015076     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.191     Document Type: Article

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