Mid-pleistocene vertebrate records | Australia

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1517-1537

  Prideaux, G J ^a  

^a WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Birds; Caves; Climate; Distribution; Frogs; Mammals; Marsupials; Middle pleistocene; Monotremes; Paleoecology; Placentals; Reptiles; Vertebrate fossils; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079810744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-44-452747-8/00258-1     Document Type: Chapter

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