Macroscelidea

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048199617, 2011, Pages 67-74

  Winkler, Alisa J ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elephant shrews; Laetoli; Paleoecology; Pliocene; Rhynchocyon; Sengis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877644768     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9962-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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