Southern Caribbean Neogene palaeobiogeography revisited. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-461

  Landau, Bernard ^a,b   Vermeij, Geerat ^c   da Silva, Carlos Marques ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b International Health Centres ^*  (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Colombian Venezuelan Trinidad Subprovince; Cubagua; Gastropoda; Palaeobiogeography; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; GASTROPOD; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBAGUA ISLAND; NUEVA ESPARTA; SOUTH AMERICA; VENEZUELA;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 38349048335     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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