Mammoths in the insular Nearctic? Some constraints on the existence of a Pleistocene megafaunal refugium in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Quaternary International

Volumn 169-170, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 29-38

  MacPhee, R D E ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAMMOTH; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; SEAFLOOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; MELVILLE ISLAND [TIWI ISLANDS]; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; TIWI ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE;

EID: 34250868928     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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