The de geer, thulean and beringia routes: Key concepts for understanding early cenozoic biogeography

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1036-1054

  Brikiatis, Leonidas ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arctic palaeogeography; Barents Sea; Beringia; De Geer route; Land mammal ages; Maastrichtian climate; New Jersey sea level; North Atlantic land bridges; Palaeocene climate; Thulean land bridge

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CENOZOIC; CHRONOLOGY; CRETACEOUS; DISPERSAL; FAUNISTICS; FLORISTICS; LAND BRIDGE; MAMMAL; MIGRATION ROUTE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84900425437     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12310     Document Type: Article

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