Did mammoth end up a lilliput? Temporal body size trends in Late Pleistocene Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) inferred from dental data

DSpace/Manakin Repository

Did mammoth end up a lilliput? Temporal body size trends in Late Pleistocene Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) inferred from dental data
 
Ouden, N. den; Reumer, J.W.F.; Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den
(2012) Quaternary Internationial, volume 255, pp. 53 - 58
(Article)
Abstract
A trend toward a smaller bodysize and increased sexual dimorphism for the latest populations of woolly mammoth is mentioned in the literature. This paper reviews the evidence using dental data, and concludes that dental data do not show this trend.
Download/Full Text
The full text of this publication is not available.
 
Keywords: woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, bodysize, dimorphism, dentition, molars
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.038
ISSN: 1040-6182
Publisher: Elsevier
 
 
See more statistics about this item