The dietary regimes of two contemporaneous populations of Hippotherium primigenium (Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Vallesian (Upper Miocene) of Southern Germany

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 381-402

  Kaiser, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hipparion; Mesowear; Miocene; Paleodiet; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

DIET; HABITAT; HORSE; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY;

(SOUTH); GERMANY;

DICERORHINUS SUMATRENSIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HIPPARION; HIPPOTHERIUM PRIMIGENIUM; KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS; MUS; PERISSODACTYLA; PHRAGMITES; RHINOCEROS; VALLESIA;

EID: 0141707824     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00480-2     Document Type: Article

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