Identifying forested environments in deep time using fossil tapirs: Evidence from evolutionary morphology and stable isotopes

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 258, 2007, Pages 147-157

  DeSantis, Larisa R G ^a   MacFadden, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; Canopy density; Cenozoic; Forest distributions; North America; Stable isotopes; Tapiridae; Tapiroidea; Tapirs

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOZOIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA; TAPIRIDAE;

EID: 37249055590     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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