Late Pleistocene dwarf elephants from the Aegean islands of Kassos and Dilos, Greece

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 27-42

  Sen, Sevket ^a   Barrier, Eric ^b   Crété, Xavier ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DISPERSAL; ELEPHANT; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; ISLAND; NEW SPECIES; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE [GREECE]; DODECANESE; GREECE; KARPATHOS [DODECANESE]; KARPATHOS [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84897431201     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.051.0204     Document Type: Article

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