The fossil record and evolution of bovidae: State of the field

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bibi, Faysal ^a,b   Bukhsianidze, Maia ^c   Gentry, Alan W ^d   Geraads, Denis ^e   Kostopoulos, Dimitris S ^f   Vrba, Elisabeth S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c The National Museum of Georgia   (Georgia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Bovidae; Late; Miocene; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RUMINANT; TAXONOMY;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 77954639738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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