Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 15512-15516

  White, Arthur W ^a   Worthy, Trevor H ^a   Hawkins, Stuart ^b   Bedford, Stuart ^b   Spriggs, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Lapita people; Meiolaniidae; Middens; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL; TAXON; TURTLE; VANUATU;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BONE AND BONES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; TURTLES; VANUATU;

MEIOLANIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77957266534     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005780107     Document Type: Article

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