Lentic Basommatophora molluscs and hygrophilous land snails as indicators of habitat and climate in the Early-Middle Pleistocene (0.78 Ma) at the site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY), Israel

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 328-340

  Mienis, H K ^a,b   Ashkenazi, S ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acroloxidae; Climate change; Fossil lentic molluscs; Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY); Lymnaeidae; Matuyama Brunhes Boundary; Planorbidae

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT; MOLLUSC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

GESHER BENOT YA'AQOV; ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

ACROLOXIDAE; BASOMMATOPHORA; CARYCHIIDAE; GASTROPODA; GYRAULUS; LYMNAEIDAE; MOLLUSCA; PLANORBARIUS CORNEUS; PLANORBIDAE; RADIX LABIATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA; SUCCINEIDAE;

EID: 79952360156     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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