The mammal assemblage of the hominid site TM266 (Late Miocene, Chad Basin): Ecological structure and paleoenvironmental implications

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 565-574

  Le Fur, Soizic ^a   Fara, Emmanuel ^b   MacKaye, Hassane Taïsso ^c   Vignaud, Patrick ^a   Brunet, Michel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE N'DJAMENA   (Chad)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Chad; Early hominids; Late Miocene; Mammal paleocommunity; Paleoenvironments

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; HOMINID; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SWAMP; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; LOCOMOTION; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAHELANTHROPUS TCHADENSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; TEMPERATE GRASSLAND;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; CHAD; CLIMATE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMINIDAE; LOCOMOTION; MAMMALS; MANDIBLE; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SKULL; TOOTH; WATER SUPPLY;

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; SAHELANTHROPUS TCHADENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 64549118201     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0504-7     Document Type: Article

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