Diet and habitat of toxodont megaherbivores (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the late Quaternary of South and Central America

Quaternary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-124

  MacFadden, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Carbon isotopes ( 13C); Holocene; Honduras; Mixotoxodon; Peru; Pleistocene; Refugia; Toxodon

Indexed keywords

PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHACO; MAMMALIA; NOTOUNGULATA; TOXODON;

EID: 24144500615     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.05.003     Document Type: Article

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