Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Rybczynski, Natalia ^a   Gosse, John C ^b   Richard Harington, C ^a   Wogelius, Roy A ^c   Hidy, Alan J ^b   Buckley, Mike ^c  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BONE; BOREAL FOREST; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DISPERSAL; GLACIATION; LIMB; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; SUBFOSSIL; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; UNGULATE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CAMEL; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; FOREST; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PLIOCENE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; CAMELS; COLLAGEN; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HOT TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPE LABELING; NUNAVUT; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; ELLESMERE ISLAND; EURASIA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

CAMELIDAE;

EID: 84875829580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2516     Document Type: Article

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