Early Pleistocene Faunas of Eurasia and Hominin Dispersals

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048190355, 2010, Pages 207-224

  Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; Hippopotamus antiquus; Homo; Megantereon whitei; Pachycrocuta brevirostris; Theropithecus oswaldi

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015834550     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9036-2_13     Document Type: Chapter

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