Fish remains from the Plio-Pleistocene Shungura Formation, Omo River basin, Ethiopia

Geobios

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 283-295

  Stewart, Kathlyn M ^a   Murray, Alison M ^b  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Africa; Fossil fish; Lates; Omo River; Plio Pleistocene; Sindacharax

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY;

CHARACIFORMES; LATES; PERCIFORMES; PISCES; SINDACHARAX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 42149086440     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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