Mitilanotherium inexpectatum (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from Huélago (Lower Pleistocene; Guadix-Baza basin, Granada, Spain) - Observations on a peculiar biogegraphic pattern

Estudios Geologicos

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 613-627

  Van Der Made, J ^a   Morales, J ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Giraffidae; Mitilanotherium; Pleistocene; Strait of Gibraltar

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; RUMINANT;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; GUADIX-BAZA BASIN; SPAIN; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

GIRAFFIDAE; MAMMALIA; RUMANIA;

EID: 84858043486     PISSN: 03670449     EISSN: 19883250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3989/egeol.40560.209     Document Type: Article

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