The age of the "Grande Coupure" mammal turnover: New constraints from the Eocene-Oligocene record of the Eastern Ebro Basin (NE Spain)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 301, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 97-107

  Costa, Elisenda ^a   Garcés, Miguel ^a   Sáez, Alberto ^a   Cabrera, Lluís ^a   López Blanco, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ebro Basin; Eocene Oligocene; Fossil mammals; Grande coupure; Magnetostratigraphy; SW Europe

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FOSSIL RECORD; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; SANDSTONE;

EBRO BASIN; ENGLAND; HAMPSHIRE BASIN; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79951663549     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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