A mammalian lost world in Southwest Europe during the late pliocene

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Arribas, Alfonso ^a   Garrido, Guiomar ^a   Viseras, César ^b   Soria, Jesús M ^c   Pla, Sila ^b   Solano, José G ^a   Garcés, Miguel ^d   Beamud, Elisabet ^e   Carrión, José S ^f  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; COW; DOG; EUROPE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GIRAFFE; HYENA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLIOCENE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SWINE; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CANIDAE; CANIS; GIRAFFIDAE; MAMMALIA; PARAHYAENA BRUNNEA; POTAMOCHOERUS; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 70349632453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007127     Document Type: Article

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