The Maragheh bovids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): Systematic revision and biostratigraphic-zoogeographic interpretation;Bovidés de Maragheh (Mammalia, Artiodactyla): Révision systématique et interpretation biostratigraphique et zoogéographique

Geodiversitas

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 649-708

  Kostopoulos, Dimitrios S ^a   Bernor, Raymond L ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artiodactyla; Biostratigraphy; Bovidae; Large mammals; Mammalia; Maragheh; New genus; Palaeozoogeography; Turolian

Indexed keywords

ARTIODACTYLA; BOVIDAE; GAZELLA; MAMMALIA; PALAEOREAS; PROSTREPSICEROS;

EID: 84855492754     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5252/g2011n4a6     Document Type: Review

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