Dental microwear analysis of bovids from the Vallesian (late Miocene) of Axios Valley in Greece: Reconstruction of the habitat of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Primates, Hominoidea)

Geodiversitas

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 421-433

  Merceron, Gildas ^a,b   Blondel, Cécile ^a   Viriot, Laurent ^a   Koufos, George D ^c   De Bonis, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; Hominoidea; Microwear; Miocene; Ouranopithecus; Paleodiet; Paleoenvironment; Primates; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

BOVIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; OURANOPITHECUS; OURANOPITHECUS MACEDONIENSIS; PRIMATES; UNGULATA; VALLESIA;

EID: 35148839924     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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