Dental microwear of the late Miocene bovids of northern Greece: Vallesian/Turolian environmental changes and disappearance of ouranopithecus macedoniensis?

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 475-484

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental microwear; Eastern Mediterranean; Late Miocene; Ouranopithecus; Paleodiet; Paleoenvironment; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TOOTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BOVIDAE; UNGULATA; VALLESIA;

EID: 32144436116     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.5.475     Document Type: Article

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