Comparative dental microwear of ruminant and perissodactyl molars: Implications for paleodietary analysis of rare and extinct ungulate clades

Paleobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 98-116

  Mihlbachler, Matthew C ^a,b   Campbell, Daniel ^a   Ayoub, Michael ^a   Chen, Charlotte ^a   Ghani, Ishrat ^a  

^a NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; DENTITION; DIET; GRAZING; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RUMINANT; ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENAMEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXTINCTION; MICROSCOPY; PALEOBIOLOGY; RARE SPECIES;

UNGULATA;

EID: 84958546304     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2015.33     Document Type: Article

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