Late pleistocene megafauna site at black creek swamp, flinders chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Alcheringa

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 367-387

  Wells, Roderick T ^a   Grün, Rainer ^b   Sullivan, Jo ^a   Forbes, Matthew S ^a   Dalgairns, Simone ^a   Bestland, Erick A ^a   Rhodes, Ed J ^b   Walshe, Keryn E ^a   Spooner, Nigel A ^c   Eggins, Stephen ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dating; Extinction; Humans; Kangaroo island; Marsupials; Palaeoecology; Pleistocene; South australia; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

METATHERIA; THYLACOLEO CARNIFEX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 48549098353     PISSN: 03115518     EISSN: 17520754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03115510609506873     Document Type: Article

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