Paleocommunity reconstruction and accumulation of micromammalian remains (late Eocene, southern England)

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 553-567

  Vasileiadou, Katerina ^a,b,c   Hooker, Jerry J ^b   Collinson, Margaret E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BIOACCUMULATION; CARNIVORE; EOCENE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETON; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

ENGLAND; ISLE OF WIGHT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MYOXIDAE; OMOMYIDAE; PANTOLESTIDAE; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; THERIDOMYIDAE;

EID: 78649520608     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.P08-035r     Document Type: Article

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