On Mesopithecus habitat: Insights from late Miocene fossil vertebrate localities of Bulgaria

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 162-179

  Clavel, Julien ^a   Merceron, Gildas ^a,b   Hristova, Latinka ^c   Spassov, Nikolaï ^c   Kovachev, Dimitar ^c   Escarguel, Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bovid; Cercopithecoid; Environments; Equid; Europe; Primates

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOSSIL; HABITAT; HORSE; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMATE; RUMINANT;

BULGARIA; HADJIDIMOVO; KALIMANTSI; STRUMYANI;

BOVIDAE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; EQUIDAE; PRIMATES; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863536968     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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