The enigmatic bovid duboisia santeng (Dubois, 1891) from the early-middle pleistocene of java: A multiproxy approach to its paleoecology

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 377, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-85

  Rozzi, Roberto ^a   Winkler, Daniela Eileen ^b   De Vos, John ^c   Schulz, Ellen ^b   Palombo, Maria Rita ^a,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body size; Dental Areal Surface Texture Analysis (DASTA); Island evolution; Mesowear analysis; Paleohabitat

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; BODY SIZE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TEXTURE;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; JAVA; SUNDA ISLES;

BIBOS; BOVIDAE; BUBALUS; DUBOISIA; HOMO ERECTUS; MAMMALIA; STEGODON;

EID: 84876696428     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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