A new chronology for middle Eocene-early Miocene South American Land Mammal Ages

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 539-555

  Dunn, Regan E ^a   Madden, Richard H ^b   Kohn, Matthew J ^c   Schmitz, Mark D ^c   Strömberg, Caroline A E ^a   Carlini, Alfredo A ^d   Ré, Guillermo H ^e   Crowley, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PRECISION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; ZIRCON CRYSTALS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; SILICATE MINERALS;

MAMMALS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

SOUTH AMERICA;

MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84875110673     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30660.1     Document Type: Article

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