The late Miocene vertebrate locality of Perivolaki, Thessaly, Greece: 8. Giraffidae

Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie

Volumn 276, Issue 1-6, 2006, Pages 135-149

  Kostopoulos, Dimitris S ^a   Koufos, George D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Giraffidae; Greece; Miocene; Perivolaki; Turolian

Indexed keywords

BONE; DENTITION; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; RUMINANT; VERTEBRATE;

GREECE; THESSALY;

EID: 33751003231     PISSN: 03750442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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