Indications for a dietary change in the extinct Bovid genus Myotragus (Plio-Holocene, Mallorca, Spain)

Geobios

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 143-150

  Winkler, Daniela Eileen ^a   Schulz, Ellen ^a   Calandra, Ivan ^a   Gailer, Juan Pablo ^a   Landwehr, Christina ^a   Kaiser, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dietary reconstruction; Island evolution; Microtexture; Myotragus; Tooth wear

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIETARY SHIFT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE; PLIOCENE; RUMINANT; TOOTH;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

BOVIDAE; MYOTRAGUS; MYOTRAGUS BALEARICUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84875552558     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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