A mixed-feeding Equus species from the Middle Pleistocene of South Africa

Quaternary Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-323

  Kaiser, Thomas M ^a   Franz Odendaal, Tamara A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equus; Habitat reconstruction; Horse; Mesowear; Palaeodiet; Palaeoecology; Tooth wear

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; HABITAT; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; EQUUS CAPENSIS; EQUUS MOSBACHENSIS; GAZELLA; GAZELLA GRANTI; GAZELLA THOMSONII; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 8644244762     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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