Late middle to late Pleistocene paleoecology and paleoenvironments in the coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul State, Southern Brazil, from stable isotopes in fossils of Toxodon and Stegomastodon

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 369, Issue , 2013, Pages 385-394

  Lopes, Renato P ^a,b   Ribeiro, Ana Maria ^b,c   Dillenburg, Sérgio Rebello ^b   Schultz, Cesar Leandro ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FUNDAÇÃO ZOOBOTÂNICA DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gomphotheriidae; Megafauna; Paleoecology; Pleistocene; Stable isotopes; Toxodontidae

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; DIET; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO SUL;

GOMPHOTHERIIDAE; LOXODONTA; MAMMALIA; TOXODON;

EID: 84872031469     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.10.042     Document Type: Article

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