The Muirkirk Mammoth: A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) skeleton from southern Ontario, Canada

Quaternary International

Volumn 255, Issue , 2012, Pages 106-113

  Harington, C R ^a   Mol, Dick ^b   van der Plicht, Johannes ^c,d  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; COLLAGEN; EXTINCTION; GLACIATION; IVORY; MAMMOTH; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETON; TUNDRA; WOODLAND;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

MAMMUT AMERICANUM; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; MASTODON; PICEA;

EID: 84857447439     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.038     Document Type: Article

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