Ectothermic vertebrates, climate and environment of the West Runton Freshwater Bed (Early Middle Pleistocene, Cromerian)

Quaternary International

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 63-71

  Böhme, Madelaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROMERIAN; ECTOTHERMY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

ENGLAND; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST RUNTON;

ABRAMIS BJOERKNA; AMPHIBIA; COLUBROIDEA; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; LEUCISCUS; PISCES; REPTILIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TRITURUS; TRITURUS CRISTATUS; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 78249235282     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.06.021     Document Type: Article

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