An assessment of the contribution of fossil cave deposits to the Quaternary paleontological record

Quaternary International

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 105-116

  Jass, Christopher N ^a,b   George, Christian O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEPOSIT; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 77950517167     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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