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SUBMITTER: Ring SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7055232 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ring Simon J SJ Bocherens Hervé H Wings Oliver O Rabi Márton M
Scientific reports 20200304 1
A negative correlation between body size and the latitudinal temperature gradient is well established for extant terrestrial endotherms but less so in the fossil record. Here we analyze the middle Eocene site of Geiseltal (Germany), whose record is considered to span ca. 5 Myrs of gradual global cooling, and generate one of the most extensive mammalian Paleogene body size datasets outside North America. The δ<sup>18</sup>O and δ<sup>13</sup>C isotopic analysis of bioapatite reveals signatures in ...[more]