A paleoecological paradox: The habitat and dietary preferences of the extinct tethythere Desmostylus, inferred from stable isotope analysis

Paleobiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 506-519

  Clementz, Mark T ^a   Hoppe, Kathryn A ^b   Koch, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENAMEL; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT; MAMMAL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

ANIMALIA; DESMOSTYLIA; MAMMALIA; SIRENIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345581647     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0506:APPTHA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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