Habitat tracking, range dynamics and palaeoclimatic significance of Eurasian giant salamanders (Cryptobranchidae) - indications for elevated Central Asian humidity during Cenozoic global warm periods

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 342-343, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-72

  Böhme, Madelaine ^a,b   Vasilyan, Davit ^b   Winklhofer, Michael ^c  

^a Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Environmental stasis; Giant salamanders; Global warm periods; Palaeoprecipitation

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ARIDIFICATION; CENOZOIC; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMIDITY; JURASSIC; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TRACKING;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; CHINA; MONGOLIA;

CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862563398     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.04.032     Document Type: Article

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