Late Tertiary origins of the Arctic beetle fauna

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 373-392

  Elias, Scott A ^a   Kuzmina, Svetlana ^a   Kiselyov, Sergei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; Beetles; Evolution; Paleoecology; Quaternary; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; FOSSILIZATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TERTIARY;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33750493602     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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