Revealing seasonal woolly mammoth migration with spatially-resolved trace element, Sr and O isotopic records of molar enamel

N Kowalik, R Anczkiewicz, W Müller, C Spötl… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigated the mobility pattern of an Upper Palaeolithic woolly mammoth (Mammuthus
primigenius) from the Kraków Spadzista site in southern Poland, one of the largest …

Dietary and habitat shifts in relation to climate of Neogene-Quaternary proboscideans and associated mammals of the Indian subcontinent

R Patnaik, NP Singh, D Paul, R Sukumar - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Several studies have established that African proboscideans shifted their feeding strategies
(browsing vs. grazing) in response to climatic and ecological changes. However, similar …

Stable isotope time-series in mammalian teeth: In situ δ18O from the innermost enamel layer

SA Blumenthal, TE Cerling, KL Chritz… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in mammalian tooth enamel are commonly used to
understand the diets and environments of modern and fossil animals. Isotope variation …

Bomb-curve radiocarbon measurement of recent biologic tissues and applications to wildlife forensics and stable isotope (paleo) ecology

KT Uno, J Quade, DC Fisher… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Above-ground thermonuclear weapons testing from 1952 through 1962 nearly doubled the
concentration of radiocarbon (14C) in the atmosphere. As a result, organic material formed …

Life-history of Palaeoloxodon antiquus reveals Middle Pleistocene glacial refugium in the Megalopolis basin, Greece

E Roditi, H Bocherens, GE Konidaris, A Athanassiou… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The Balkans are considered a major glacial refugium where flora and fauna survived glacial
periods and repopulated the rest of Europe during interglacials. While it is also thought to …

Isotopic records of climate seasonality in equid teeth

SA Blumenthal, TE Cerling, TM Smiley… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate how oxygen isotopes in equid teeth can be used as a record of seasonality.
First, we use in situ laser ablation and conventional microsampling techniques to …

High spatial resolution Sr isotope and trace element record of dental enamel mineralization in a woolly mammoth tooth: Implications for paleoecological …

R Anczkiewicz, A Nava, L Bondioli, W Müller… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The isotopic composition and abundance of trace elements in skeletal remains are often
used for paleobiological and paleoecological reconstructions. Increasing attention is being …

Annual isotopic diet (δ13C) of Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842) and climate variation (δ18O) through the late Pleistocene in the Brazilian Intertropical Region

MAT Dantas, VS Gomes, A Cherkinsky… - Quaternary …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We inferred the annual isotopic diet (δ13C) of an individual of the giant ground sloth
Eremotherium laurillardi found in Toca dos Ossos (Ourolândia, Bahia, Brazil) through the …

Forward and inverse methods for extracting climate and diet information from stable isotope profiles in proboscidean molars

KT Uno, DC Fisher, G Wittemyer… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intratooth stable isotope profiles in enamel provide time series of dietary and environmental
information that if correctly interpreted, serve as archives of seasonal variability in past …

[HTML][HTML] Pliocene-Early Pleistocene continental climate and vegetation in Europe based on stable isotope compositions of mammal tooth enamel

P Szabó, J Kovács, L Kocsis, T Vennemann… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing need for paleoclimate records from continental settings to better
understand the climatic changes during critical periods such as the Pliocene and Early …