Ecological interpretations of early Pleistocene deer (Mammalia, Cervidae) from Ceyssaguet (Haute-Loire, France)

摘要: The mesowear method is applied to reveal the type of forage eaten by late Villafranchian deer Ceyssaguet (Haute-Loire, France). Further, habitat properties paleoenvironment are reconstructed. most common species, Eucladoceros ctenoides Nesti, 1841 and Metacervoceros rhenanus Dubois, 1904, interpreted as abrasion-dominated mixed feeders with close 45% grass in their which was similar that south east Asian hog sambar. A third Praemegaceros obscurus Azzaroli, 1953, represented only three fossil specimens, a more attrition dominated feeder. Combined analysis, taphonomical morpho-functional data allow reconstruction an open grassland wooded habitats near lake, under cold climate.