Did mammoth end up a lilliput? Temporal body size trends in Late Pleistocene Mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) inferred from dental data
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2012
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Ouden, N. den
Reumer, J.W.F.
Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den
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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.
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woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, bodysize, dimorphism, dentition, molars