Body temperatures of modern and extinct vertebrates from 13C-18O bond abundances in bioapatite

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10377-10382

  Eagle, Robert A ^a   Schauble, Edwin A ^b   Tripati, Aradhna K ^a,b,c   Tütken, Thomas ^d   Hulbert, Richard C ^e   Eiler, John M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apatite; Isotope; Paleoclimate; Paleothermometry; Thermophysiology

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBON 13; OXYGEN 18; WATER;

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELEPHANT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXTINCT SPECIES; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAMMOTH; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCEROS; SHARK; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOMETER; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARBON ISOTOPES; FOSSILS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; THERMODYNAMICS; TOOTH; VERTEBRATES;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77953740876     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911115107     Document Type: Article

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