New insights on the taphonomy of the exceptional Mammalian fossil sites of Cerro de los Batallones (late Miocene, Spain) based on rare earth element geochemistry

Palaios

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Domingo, M Soledad ^a,b   Domingo, Laura ^c,d,e   Sánchez, Israel M ^b   Alberdi, M Teresa ^b   Azanza, Beatriz ^f   Morales, Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e Universidad Complutense de Madrid CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Batallones 1; bone assemblage; diagenesis; paleoenvironment; REE

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; BONE; CAVITY; CESIUM; DIAGENESIS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENTATION; TAPHONOMY;

SPAIN;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650862259     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-047r     Document Type: Article

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