Fish and ancient lakes in the dead sea rift: The use of fish remains to reconstruct the ichthyofauna of paleo-lake hula

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 405, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-41

  Zohar, Irit ^a,b   Goren, Menachem ^c   Goren Inbar, Naama ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Cyprinidae; Luciobarbus; Middle Pleistocene; Pharyngeal bone; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899829871     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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