Dorcatherium naui and pecoran ruminants from the late Middle Miocene Gratkorn locality (Austria)

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments - Tập 94 Số 1 - Trang 83-123 - 2014
Manuela Aiglstorfer1, Gertrud E. Rößner2, Madelaine Böhme3
1Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstraße 10, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
2SNSB—Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333, München, Germany
3Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP), Sigwartstraße 10, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

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