Late Miocene-Early Pliocene climatic evolution of the Granada Basin (southern Spain) deduced from the paleoecology of the micromammal associations

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 265, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 214-225

  García Alix, Antonio ^a   Minwer Barakat, Raef ^a   Martín Suárez, Elvira ^a   Freudenthal, Matthijs ^a,b   Martín, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Granada Basin; Micromammals; Mio Pliocene; Paleoecology; Ruscinian; Turolian

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INSECTIVORE; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLIOCENE; RODENT; TORTONIAN; TUROLIAN;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; GRANADA BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

RODENTIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 48149088606     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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