Patterns of diet and body mass of large ungulates from the pleistocene of Western Europe, and their relation to vegetation

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Saarinen, Juha ^a,b   Eronen, Jussi ^a   Fortelius, Mikael ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Lister, Adrian M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass; Mesowear; Pleistocene; Ungulate communities; Vegetation openness

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; DIET; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DENSITY; UNGULATE; VEGETATION;

WESTERN EUROPE;

BISON; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; CERVIDAE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS FERUS; RHINOCEROTIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 84988575995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26879/443     Document Type: Article

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