Middle Miocene Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from Fort Ternan, western Kenya
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Dietary and environmental reconstruction with stable isotope analyses of herbivore tooth enamel from the Miocene locality of Fort Ternan, Kenya.
Tooth enamel of nine Middle Miocene mammalian herbivores from Fort Ternan, Kenya, was analyzed for delta 13C and delta 18O. The delta 18O values of the tooth enamel compared with pedogenic and diagenetic carbonate confirm the use of stable isotope analysis of fossil tooth enamel as a paleoenvironmental indicator. Furthermore, the delta 18O of tooth enamel indicates differences in water sources ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geodiversitas
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1280-9659
DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a6