Diets and environments of late Cenozoic mammals in the Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from stable isotopes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 70-82

  Zhang, Chunfu ^a,f   Wang, Yang ^a   Li, Qiang ^b   Wang, Xiaoming ^c   Deng, Tao ^b   Tseng, Zhijie J ^d   Takeuchi, Gary T ^c   Xie, Gangpu ^e   Xu, Yingfeng ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Gansu Provincial Museum   (China)

^f FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C4 plants; Early Pliocene; Fossil mammals; Late Miocene; Qaidam Basin; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

C4 PLANT; LATE MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; QAIDAM BASIN; STABLE ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPES; NUTRITION; TOOTH ENAMEL;

MAMMALS;

ARIDIFICATION; BIOINDICATOR; C4 PLANT; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; ENAMEL; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; METEORIC WATER; MIOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ELEPHANTIDAE; EQUIDAE; GIRAFFIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861149248     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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