Small mammal carbon isotope ecology across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, northwestern Argentina

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 321-322, Issue , 2012, Pages 177-188

  Hynek, Scott A ^a   Passey, Benjamin H ^a,d   Prado, José Luis ^b   Brown, Francis H ^a   Cerling, Thure E ^a   Quade, Jay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C4 plants; Carbon isotopes; Laser ablation; Notoungulate; Rodent; Tooth enamel

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; C4 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; ISOTOPIC DATA; LATE MIOCENE; NOTOUNGULATE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; RODENT; SMALL MAMMALS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL SCALE;

CARBON; ECOLOGY; EXPANSION; ISOTOPES; LASER ABLATION; NUTRITION; STRATIGRAPHY; TOOTH ENAMEL; VEGETATION;

MAMMALS;

C4 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MIOCENE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PLIOCENE; SMALL MAMMAL; TOOTH; VEGETATION COVER;

ARGENTINA;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84856567061     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.038     Document Type: Article

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