Dental microwear of fossil bovids from northern Greece: Paleoenvironmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 217, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 173-185

  Merceron, Gildas ^a,b   De Bonis, Louis ^a   Viriot, Laurent ^a   Blondel, Cécile ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Géobiologie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Mediterranean; Messinian; Molar microwear; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

FOOD PREFERENCE; FOSSIL; MESSINIAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TOOTH; UNGULATE; VEGETATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BOVIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 13444282109     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.11.019     Document Type: Article

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