Preliminary characteristics of pathologies found in the skeletons of mammoths at the Kraków Spadzista Street (B) site

Veterinarija ir Zootechnika

Volumn 43, Issue 65, 2008, Pages 52-57

  Krzemińska, Alina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bone pathologies; Mammuthus primigenius; Poland; Woolly mammoth

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 53649102672     PISSN: 13922130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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