Just a few: Rodents and lagomorphs in the Plio-Pleistocene fossil record of the Upper Valdarno Basin

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 98-103

  Rook, Lorenzo ^a   Angelone, Chiara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biharian; Pleistocene; Toringian; Upper Valdarno Basin; Vill nyian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876084946     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2012.27     Document Type: Article

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