The Messinian event: What happened to the peri-Mediterranean mammalian communities and local climate?

Geobios

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 423-431

  Costeur, Loïc ^a,b   Montuire, Sophie ^c   Legendre, Serge ^a   Maridet, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Mammalian communities; Mediterranean Sea; Messinian salinity crisis; Neogene; Palaeoclimate; Palaeoenvironment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; MESSINIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 34249718462     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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