Endocranial morpholoy of the Ursus deningeri von reichenau 1904 from the Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca) Middle Pleistocene site

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1007-1017

  García, Nuria ^a,b   Santos, Elena ^c   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b   Carretero, Jose Miguel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CRANIUM; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

URSIDAE; URSUS; URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 38149073084     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[1007:EMOTUD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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