Dragon's paradise lost: Palaeobiogeography, evolution and extinction of the largest-ever terrestrial lizards (varanidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Hocknull, Scott A ^a   Piper, Philip J ^b   van den Bergh, Gert D ^c   Due, Rokus Awe ^d   Morwood, Michael J ^c   Kurniawan, Iwan ^e  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Indonesian Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^e Geological Survey Institute   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAUNA; FOSSIL ANIMAL; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOGENE; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLIOCENE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; QUATERNARY (PERIOD); SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE;

HOMINIDAE; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; SQUAMATA; STEGODON; VARANIDAE; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 70349638507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007241     Document Type: Article

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