New insights on the cave bear population from the urşilor cave, Romania

Quaternaire, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 4, 2011, Pages 107-116

  Robu, Marius ^a   Petculescu, Alexandra ^a   Panaiotu, Cristian ^b   Döppes, Doris ^c   Marius, Vlaicu ^a   Draguşin, Virgil ^a,d   Kenesz, Marius ^d   Moldovan, Oana Teodora ^a   Constantin, Silviu ^a  

^a EMIL RACOVI INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c Reiss Engelhorn Museen   (Germany)

^d BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biochronological estimation; Magnetic susceptibility; Romania; Taphonomy; Upper Pleistocene; Urjilor cave; Ursus spelaeus

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BIOCHRONOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MORPHODYNAMICS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY;

ROMANIA;

URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 84858039237     PISSN: 17711150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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