The Leporid Datum: A late Miocene biotic marker

Mammal Review

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 164-176

  Flynn, Lawrence J ^a   Winkler, Alisa J ^b   Erbaeva, Margarita ^c   Alexeeva, Nadia ^c   Anders, Ulrike ^d   Angelone, Chiara ^e   Čermák, Stanislav ^f   Fladerer, Florian A ^g,h   Kraatz, Brian ⁱ   Ruedas, Luis A ^j   Ruf, Irina ^d   Tomida, Yukimitsu ^k   Veitschegger, Kristof ^h   Zhang, Zhaoqun ^l  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^g ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^j PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^l INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

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Author keywords

Dispersal; Immigration; Late Neogene; Molecular tree; Palaeoecology

Indexed keywords

LEPORIDAE;

EID: 84914179646     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: 13652907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mam.12016     Document Type: Review

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