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Feeding Ecology in Oligocene Mylodontoid Sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra) as Revealed by Orthodentine Microwear Analysis

Recently, dental microwear analysis has been successfully employed to xenarthran teeth. Here, we present new data on use wear features on 16 molariforms of Orophodon hapaloides and Octodontotherium grande. These taxa count among the earliest sloths and are known from the Deseadan SALMA (late Oligoce...

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Autores principales: Kalthoff, Daniela C., Green, Jeremy L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6209052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30443148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-017-9405-x