Stratified Pleistocene vertebrates with a new record of a jaguar-sized pantherine (Panthera cf. gombaszogensis) from northern Saudi Arabia

Quaternary International

Volumn 382, Issue , 2015, Pages 168-180

  Stimpson, Christopher M ^a   Breeze, Paul S ^b   Clark Balzan, Laine ^a   Groucutt, Huw S ^a   Jennings, Richard ^a   Parton, Ash ^a   Scerri, Eleanor ^a   White, Tom S ^a   Petraglia, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabia; Jaguar; Panthera gombaszogensis; Pleistocene; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRANIUM; DISPERSAL; FAUNA; FELID; FOSSIL; NEW RECORD; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY;

NEFUD; SAUDI ARABIA;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ORYX; PANTHERA; TACHYBAPTUS; VERTEBRATA; VULPES SP.;

EID: 84941781655     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.049     Document Type: Article

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