New saber-toothed cat records (Felidae: Machairodontinae) for the Pleistocene of Venezuela, and the Great American Biotic Interchange

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 468-478

  Rincón, Ascanio D ^a   Prevosti, Francisco J ^b   Parra, Gilberto E ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^c PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FELID; IDENTIFICATION KEY; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

FALCON; MONAGAS; VENEZUELA; ZULIA; ZUMBADOR CAVE;

FALCONIDAE; FELIDAE; HOMOTHERIUM; HOMOTHERIUM SERUM; MENE; SMILODON; SMILODON FATALIS; SMILODON POPULATOR; VERTEBRATA; ZULIA;

EID: 79952994954     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2011.550366     Document Type: Article

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