Feeding behaviour of middle-size deer from the Upper Pliocene site of Saint-Vallier (France) inferred by morphological and micro/mesowear analysis |
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| Authors: | Andrea M.F. Valli Maria R. Palombo |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 500185 Roma, Italy;2. Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Piazza Mincio 2, 00198 Roma, Italy;3. Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 Roma, Italy;1. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ, UK;2. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany;3. Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;4. Zoo Dortmund, Mergelteichstr. 80, 44225 Dortmund, Germany;1. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy;2. CNR, Istituto di Geologia ambientale e Geoingegneria, Montelibretti, Roma, Italy;1. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, CAS, Beijing, 100044, China;2. CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, 100044, China;3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China;4. Institute of Archaeology of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan, 030001, China;5. Institute of Archaeology of Datong Municipality, Datong, 037004, China;6. Office of Cultural Relics of Tianzhen County, Tianzhen, 037400, China;1. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain;2. Departamento de Geología y Ecología, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29071 Málaga, Spain;3. Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontología, 18858 Orce, Granada, Spain;4. ICREA at Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, c/Marcel·lí Domingo s/n, Edifici W3, Campus Sescelades URV, 43007 Tarragona, Spain;5. Àrea de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Avda. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain;6. ICREA at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and Unitat d''Antropologia (Dept. BABVE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain;1. Departamento de Ecología y Geología, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071, Málaga, Spain;2. Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome and CNR Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy;3. Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social-IPHES, Campus Sescelades URV, 43007, Tarragona, Spain;4. Departament d?Història i Geografia, Campus Catalunya URV, Avda. Catalunya, 43002, Tarragona, Spain;5. ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain;1. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, c. José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain;2. Àrea de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira I Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002, Tarragona, Spain;3. IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana I Evolució Social, C/ Marcel.lí Domingo s/n - Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007, Tarragona, Spain;4. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Paseo Sierra de Atapuerca 3, 09002 Burgos, Spain |
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| Abstract: | In the middle Villafranchian (Late Pliocene) fossil deposit of Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France), the international biochronological reference for the MN17 biozone, deer are the most common species. Two middle-sized taxa, “Metacervoceros” rhenanus [Dubois, E., 1904. On an equivalent of the Cromer Forest Bed in the Netherlands. Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 214–222] and Croizetoceros ramosus (Croizet and Jobert, 1828), are particularly abundant. We have performed functional morphology and micro- and mesowear analyses in order to explain if and how the two herbivorous species avoided intra-guild competition. The results of the microwear analysis show a clear difference in the wear pattern of their tooth enamel, demonstrating the two species had different feeding behaviour habits. |
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