Afro-Eurasian mammalian dispersal routes of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, and their bearing on earliest hominin movements

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 256, 2006, Pages 305-314

  O'Regan, Hannah ^a   Bishop, Laura ^a   Elton, Sarah ^b   Lamb, Angela ^c   Turner, Alan ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Gibraltar Straits; Hippopotamus; Homo; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Theropithecus

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; THEROPITHECUS;

EID: 33947243495     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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