Autor según el artículo: Niknahad, M; Vaziri, MR; Arab, AL; Rivals, F
Departamento: Història i Història de l'Art
Autor/es de la URV: Rivals, Florent Joseph Louis
Palabras clave: Tooth wear Paleoecology Microwear Mesowear Iran Hipparion Equidae Dietary habits reconstruction pleistocene paleoenvironment paleoecology microwear mesowear iran hipparion fossil fauna equidae azarbaijan artiodactyla
Resumen: Maragheh has yielded one of the richest mammal faunas of the late Miocene in the so-called Greco-Iranian Biogeographical Province in western Asia. This study investigates the paleoecology of fossil perissodactyls (equids) from the late Miocene of Maragheh, northwestern Iran. We used dental micro- and mesowear techniques to draw robust inferences about fossil equid dietary habits. Mesowear and microwear analyses were applied to the upper second molars of an hipparionine horse, aff. Hippotherium brachypus. For this purpose, we investigated samples from three fossiliferous localities: Ruhanioon, Azim Dareh, and Sizdaheaban. Six fossil specimens were analyzed for enamel meso- and microwear and results were compared to an extensive database of extant ungulates. Results indicated overlap of the Maragheh hipparions with the dietary signal of extant grazers and grass-dominated mixed feeders. This is consistent with the supposed vegetational habitat proposed by previous mesowear studies. The aff. Hippotherium brachypus hipparions from Maragheh were consuming a mixture of plants but with a preference for grasses. These results are consistent with paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the late Miocene dominated by open grassland areas among more wooded settings.
Áreas temáticas: Stratigraphy Paleontology Medicina ii Geology Geociências Biodiversidade
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: florent.rivals@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-8074-9254
Fecha de alta del registro: 2024-08-03
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/19394
URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia. 129 (2): 361-367
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Niknahad, M; Vaziri, MR; Arab, AL; Rivals, F (2023). DIETARY TRAITS OF LATE MIOCENE HIPPARIONS FROM MARAGHEH REVEALED THROUGH DENTAL WEAR. Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia, 129(2), 361-367. DOI: 10.54103/2039-4942/19394
DOI del artículo: 10.54103/2039-4942/19394
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications