Dietary niche partitioning among fossil bovids in late Miocene C3 habitats: Consilience of functional morphology and stable isotope analysis

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 529-538

  Bibi, Faysal ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boselaphini; Bovidae; Bovinae; Bovini; Diet; Grasslands; Late Miocene; Paleoecology; Siwaliks

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIOCENE; NICHE PARTITIONING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; RUMINANT; TOOTH;

ASIA; EURASIA; SIWALIK HILLS; SOUTH ASIA;

BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; BOVINI;

EID: 34548527369     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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