Oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of middle Cretaceous vertebrates from North Africa and Brazil: Ecological and environmental significance

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 439-451

  Amiot, Romain ^a,b   Wang, Xu ^c   Lécuyer, Christophe ^b   Buffetaut, Eric ^d   Boudad, Larbi ^e   Cavin, Lionel ^f   Ding, Zhongli ^c   Fluteau, Frédéric ^g   Kellner, Alexander W A ^h   Tong, Haiyan ^d   Zhang, Fusong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e MOULAY ISMAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^f MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Middle Cretaceous; Morocco; Stable isotopes; Vertebrate apatite

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COEXISTENCE; CRETACEOUS; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLATITUDE; REPTILE; SURFACE WATER; TOOTH; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BRAZIL; MOROCCO; TUNISIA;

ALLIGATOR; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; REPTILIA; SALTASAURIDAE; SAUROPODA; TESTUDINES; THEROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957750426     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.08.027     Document Type: Article

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