Cranial evidence for the presence of a second endemic elephant species on Cyprus

Quaternary International

Volumn 379, Issue , 2015, Pages 47-57

  Athanassiou, Athanassios ^a   Herridge, Victoria ^b   Reese, David S ^c   Iliopoulos, George ^d   Roussiakis, Socrates ^e   Mitsopoulou, Vassiliki ^e   Tsiolakis, Efthymios ^f   Theodorou, George ^e  

^a Ministry of Culture Greece   (Greece)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cyprus   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Insular endemism; Palaeoloxodon; Pleistocene; Proboscidea; Skull; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; CRANIUM; ELEPHANT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENDEMISM; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SKULL;

CYPRUS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

ELEPHAS ANTIQUUS; MAMMALIA; PALAEOLOXODON; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMAL);

EID: 84940598071     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.065     Document Type: Article

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