Fossil bandicoots (marsupialia, peramelidae) and environmental change during the pleistocene on the darling downs, Southeastern Queensland, Australia

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 347-356

  Price, Gilbert J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Isoodon; Kings creek catchment; Non analogue assemblage; Perameles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971002129     PISSN: 14772019     EISSN: 14780941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477201904001476     Document Type: Article

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