Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern Eurasia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-17

  Stuart, Anthony J ^a   Lister, Adrian M ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coelodonta; Extinction; Megafauna; Northern Eurasia; Woolly rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; BRITAIN; COELODONTA; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; HERBACEOUS VEGETATION; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LATE QUATERNARY; LATEGLACIAL; MEGAFAUNA; NORTHERN EURASIA; RADIOCARBON DATES; RADIOCARBON DATING; SIBERIA; TIME SPAN; TIME-AVERAGED; WESTERN SIBERIA; WOOLLY MAMMOTHS; WOOLLY RHINOCEROS;

CAVES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; SNOW;

ECOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; CLIMATE VARIATION; EXTINCTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HERB; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MAMMOTH; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION; SURVIVAL; UNGULATE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

MAGADAN [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; SIBERIA; UNITED KINGDOM; WRANGEL ISLAND;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; COELODONTA; COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 84864795522     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.007     Document Type: Review

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