The oldest African bat from the early Eocene of El Kohol (Algeria)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 397-405

  Ravel, Anthony ^a   Marivaux, Laurent ^a   Tabuce, Rodolphe ^a   Adaci, Mohammed ^a,b   Mahboubi, Mohammed ^c   Mebrouk, Fateh ^c,d   Bensalah, Mustapha ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JIJEL   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Africa; Algeria; Chiroptera; Early Eocene

Indexed keywords

BAT; EOCENE; FIELDWORK; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; TOOTH; TYPE LOCALITY;

ALGERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MOLAR TOOTH; PALEONTOLOGY;

ALGERIA; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FOSSILS; MOLAR; PALEONTOLOGY;

ALGERIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

CHIROPTERA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955632689     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0785-0     Document Type: Article

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