Similarity relationships between the Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene large mammal faunas of Southern Europe from Spain to the Balkans and the North Pontic Region

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 256, 2006, Pages 329-347

  Palombo, Maria Rita ^a,b   Valli, Andrea Maria Francisco ^c   Kostopoulos, Dimitris S ^d   Alberdi, Maria Teresa ^e   Spassov, Nikolaj ^f   Vislobokova, Inessa ^g  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana   (Italy)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^f BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^g PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Early Middle Pleistocene; East Europe; Large mammal faunas; Pliocene; Southern Europe

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MAMMAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; TAXONOMY;

BALKANS; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PONTIDES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TURKEY;

AURELIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33947422536     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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