New insight from old bones: Stable isotope analysis of fossil mammals

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 368-380

  Clementz, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

bioapatite; calcium isotopes; collagen; migration; paleodietary reconstruction; strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BONE; FOSSIL RECORD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOOTH;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860591171     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-S-179.1     Document Type: Review

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