High diversity Pleistocene rainforest Dasyurid assemblages with implications for the radiation of the dasyuridae

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 663-669

  Cramb, Jonathan ^a   Hocknull, Scott ^b   Webb, Gregory E ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dasyurid; Extinction; Mt Etna; Pleistocene; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARIDIFICATION; CAVE DEPOSIT; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MARSUPIAL; NEW TAXON; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RAINFOREST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANTECHINUS; DASYURIDAE; DASYURUS; METATHERIA; PHASCOGALE; ZANCLEA;

EID: 69549135361     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01972.x     Document Type: Article

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