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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Valli, Andrea M. F.
• Palombo, Maria R.

Titel

Le régime alimentaire du Cervidae (Mammalia) Eucladoceros ctenoides (Nesti 1841) reconstitué par la morphologie du crâne et par l’usure dentaire

Ist Teil von

• Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, 2005-05, Vol.98 (1), p.133-143

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Nature B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The paleodiet of Eucladoceros ctenoides (Nesti 1841), has been investigated on two sub-species from the Villafranchian fossiliferous sites of Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France), E. ctenoides vireti Heintz 1970, and Senèze (Haute-Loire, France), E. ctenoides senezensis Depéret 1910, using skull and mandible morphological features as well as the meso- and microwears methods. The validity of skull and mandible characters used to infer diet has been tested on extant cervid species: browsers (roe deer, moose and white-tailed deer) and mixed feeders at different level (Père David’s deer, fallow deer, chital, sambar, red deer and elk). The obtained results show that the Eucladoceros specimens from Saint-Vallier and Senèze shared paleodiet and ecologic niche. Cranial morphology and tooth wear are more similar to those characterising browsers than mixed feeders. Cranial morphology can be considered as a useful tool in inferring palaeodiets, in particular when tooth samples are too scanty to apply of micro- and/or mesowear analytic methods.