Distribution history and climatic controls of the Late Miocene Pikermian chronofauna

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 11867-11871

  Eronen, Jussi T ^a   Ataabadi, Majid Mirzaie ^a   Micheels, Arne ^b   Karme, Aleksis ^a   Bernor, Raymond L ^c,d   Fortelius, Mikael ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fossil mammals; Paleoclimate; Pikermi; Similarity index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; EASTERN EUROPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOREST; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HUMIDITY; MAMMAL; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH ASIA; SUMMER; UPPER MIOCENE;

ANIMALS; ASIA; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

MAMMALIA; PARATETHYS;

EID: 67749134002     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902598106     Document Type: Article

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