Carnivorans at the Great American Biotic Interchange: New discoveries from the northern neotropics

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 965-974

  Forasiepi, Analia M ^a   Soibelzon, Leopoldo H ^b   Gomez, Catalina Suarez ^b   Sánchez, Rodolfo ^c   Quiroz, Luis I ^c,d   Jaramillo, Carlos ^c   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^e  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neotropics; Pliocene; Procyonidae; South America

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PHYLOGENETICS; PLIOCENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARGENTINA;

PROCYONIDAE;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROCYONIDAE; VENEZUELA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; COLOMBIA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; PROCYONIDAE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84917736871     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-014-1237-4     Document Type: Article

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