New insights concerning Early Pleistocene cervids and bovids in Europe: Dispersal and correlation

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 259, 2007, Pages 47-59

  Croitor, Roman ^a   Brugal, Jean Philip ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Moldova)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bovidae; Cervidae; Climate change; Early Pleistocene; Eurasia; Faunal dispersal

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; REFUGIUM; RUMINANT;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE;

BOVIDAE; CERVIDAE;

EID: 38349105333     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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