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SUBMITTER: Fortelius M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4920289 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fortelius Mikael M Žliobaitė Indrė I Kaya Ferhat F Bibi Faysal F Bobe René R Leakey Louise L Leakey Meave M Patterson David D Rannikko Janina J Werdelin Lars L
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20160701 1698
Although ecometric methods have been used to analyse fossil mammal faunas and environments of Eurasia and North America, such methods have not yet been applied to the rich fossil mammal record of eastern Africa. Here we report results from analysis of a combined dataset spanning east and west Turkana from Kenya between 7 and 1 million years ago (Ma). We provide temporally and spatially resolved estimates of temperature and precipitation and discuss their relationship to patterns of faunal change ...[more]