Direct dating of Pleistocene stegodon from Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara

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Volumn 2016, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Louys, Julien ^a   Price, Gilbert J ^b   O'Connor, Sue ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Geochronology; Island biogeography; Proboscidean

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMALS); SCAPHOPOD; STEGODON; STEGODON TIMORENSIS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84963959016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1788     Document Type: Article

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