The evolution of mid-latitude faunas during the eocene: Late eocene lizards of the medicine pole hills reconsidered

Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-105

  Smith, Krister T ^a  

^a Department of Paleoanthropology and Messel Research ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Anguidae; Biogeography; Climate change; Eocene; Greenhouse climate; Iguanidae; Squamata

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANGUIDAE; BASILISCUS; CORYTOPHANES; CORYTOPHANINAE; DIPSOSAURUS; DIPSOSAURUS DORSALIS; HAPLORHINI; HOPLOCERCINAE; IGUANA; IGUANIA; IGUANIDAE; LAEMANCTUS; PHRYNOSOMA; PHRYNOSOMATINAE; POLYCHRUS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79960409761     PISSN: 0079032X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3374/014.052.0101     Document Type: Article

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