A tale of two quarries: Biologic and taphonomic signatures in the oxygen isotope composition of tooth enamel phosphate from modern and miocene equids

Palaios

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 397-408

  Bryant, J Daniel ^a   Froelich, Philip N ^b   Showers, William J ^c   Genna, Bernard J ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

ENAMEL; EQUID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE; TOOTH;

USA, NEBRASKA;

EID: 0030429362     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515249     Document Type: Article

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