The Early-Middle Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental change based on the squamate reptile and amphibian proxies at the Gran Dolina site, Atapuerca, Spain

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 177-192

  Blain, Hugues Alexandre ^a   Bailon, Salvador ^b   Cuenca Bescós, Gloria ^c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b Laboratoire Departemental de Prehistoire du Lazaret   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assemblage evolution; Atapuerca; Early Middle Pleistocene transition; Herpetofauna; Palaeoenvironment; Spain

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECTOTHERMY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOMINID; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; REPTILE;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN DOLINA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; AMPHIBIA; ANGUIS FRAGILIS; ANURA; BLANUS CINEREUS; BUFO BUFO; BUFO CALAMITA; CORONELLA AUSTRIACA; CORONELLA GIRONDICA; HYLA ARBOREA; LACERTA; LACERTIDAE; MAMMALIA; NATRIX MAURA; NATRIX NATRIX; PELOBATES CULTRIPES; PELODYTES PUNCTATUS; PELOPHYLAX; RANA DALMATINA; RANA IBERICA; RANA TEMPORARIA; REPTILIA; RHINECHIS SCALARIS; SALAMANDROIDEA; SQUAMATA; TRITURUS; VERTEBRATA; VIPERA; VIPERA ASPIS;

EID: 41549101990     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.015     Document Type: Article

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