Magnetochronological sequence of the early pleistocene gigantopithecus faunas in Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China

Quaternary International

Volumn 354, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-23

  Sun, Lu ^a,d   Wang, Yuan ^b   Liu, Caicai ^a,c   Zuo, Tianwen ^a   Ge, Junyi ^b   Zhu, Min ^b   Jin, Changzhu ^b   Deng, Chenglong ^a   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84904051655     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.049     Document Type: Article

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