The Upper Valdarno Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate record: An historical overview, with notes on palaeobiology and stratigraphic significance of some important taxa

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-125

  Rook, Lorenzo ^a   Croitor, Roman ^b   Delfino, Massimo ^c,d   Ferretti, Marco P ^a   Gallai, Gianni ^a   Pavia, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Center for Archaeology   (Moldova)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fossil record; Plio Pleistocene; Tuscany; Upper Valdarno Basin; Villafranchian

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876091575     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2012.16     Document Type: Article

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