Early Pliocene fish remains from Arctic Canada support a pre-Pleistocene dispersal of percids (Teleostei: Perciformes)

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 557-570

  Murray, Alison M ^a   Cumbaa, Stephen L ^b   Harington, C Richard ^b   Smith, Gerald R ^c   Rybczynski, Natalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CANADA; EURASIA; NEW SPECIES; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE DEPOSITS;

SANDERS;

FOSSIL RECORD; IMMIGRATION; NEW SPECIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERCID; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ASIA; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; WEST ASIA;

PERCIDAE; PERCIFORMES; SANDER; STIZOSTEDION CANADENSE; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 70349574994     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E09-037     Document Type: Article

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