Small mammals from the early Pleistocene of the Granada Basin, southern Spain

Quaternary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 265-274

  García Alix, Antonio ^a,b   Minwer Barakat, Raef ^b   Suárez, Elvira Martín ^c   Freudenthal, Matthijs ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Granada Basin; Lipotyphla; Mammalia; Pleistocene; Rodentia; Spain

Indexed keywords

FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; INSECTIVORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAGOMORPH; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; RODENT;

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

APODEMUS; INSECTIVORA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; MIMOMYS; RODENTIA;

EID: 68349154610     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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