Taxonomic diversity of Late Cenozoic Asian and North American ochotonids (an overview)

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 27-

  Erbajeva, Margarita A ^a   Mead, Jim I ^b   Alexeeva, Nadezhda V ^a   Angelone, Chiara ^c   Swift, Sandra L ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eurasia; Miocene pleistocene; North America; Ochotonid diversity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CENOZOIC; LAGOMORPH; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84055197870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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