The large sized cercopithecoid from Pirro Nord and the importance of Theropithecus in the Early Pleistocene of Europe: Faunal marker for hominins dispersal outside Africa

Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaozoologie - Stratigraphie

Volumn 298, Issue 1-6, 2013, Pages 107-112

  Rook, Lorenzo ^a   Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Africa; Biochronology; Cercopithecoid; Cervical vertebrae; Dispersal events; Early Pleistocene; Europe; Late Villafranchian

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOMARKER; DISPERSAL; FAUNA; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

ITALY; PUGLIA;

EID: 84887403177     PISSN: 03750442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1127/pala/298/2013/107     Document Type: Article

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