Pliocene–Early Pleistocene climatic trends in the Italian Peninsula based on stable oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of rhinoceros and gomphothere tooth enamel

Browsers, grazers or mix-feeders? Study of the diet of extinct Pleistocene Eurasian forest rhinoceros Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis (Jäger, 1839) and woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach, 1799)

“…The isotope signatures of the studied taxa reflect the general pattern observed at Pleistocene sites, i.e. relatively low δ 13 C values in S. kirchbergensis (e.g., Kuitems et al, 2013;Szabó et al, 2017) and high in C. antiquitatis (Biasatti, 2009;Bocherens et al, 2015). The repeatability observed for internal lab standard (a modern cattle) was 0.12 ‰ for δ 13 C C , and 0.30 ‰ for δ 18 O C (standard deviations for N = 4).…”

“…We also applied the analysis of variance (Dunn's post hoc tests) to the sets of isotopic data for Coelodonta and Stephanorhinus species known from the literature (Bocherens et al, 1995;Ecker et al, 2013;Bocherens, 2014;Pushkina et al, 2014;Szabó et al, 2017 with further references there; Biasatti et al, 2018;Pandolfi et al, 2018). Comparisons revealed that two genera significantly differ both in terms of δ 13 C C and δ 18 O C values (p < 10 -26 and p < 10 -5 , respectively).…”

“…S3. Statistics used the data from: Ecker et al (2013), Pushkina et al (2014), Szabó et al (2017) with further references there, and our new data. S3.…”

Pleistocene rhinoceros from Bogovina Cave: the first report of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis Toula, 1902 (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from Serbia

“…and sparse woodland patches (Ravazzi et al, 2009). Recently, Szabó et al (2017) had evaluated the Leffe palaeoenvironment using stable carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of rhinoceros tooth enamel, and their results indicated an open woodland-xeric grassland environment. This is in accordance with the mesowear study by Kahlke and Kaiser (2011), which revealed S. hundsheimensis as the most ecologically tolerant rhinoceros of the Palaearctic Plio-Pleistocene, with an extreme dietary variability (ranging from a grazing regime to one of predominantly browsing).…”

Bibliometric analysis of isotopic studies on Quaternary megafauna available in the Scopus database

“…This information is fundamental to elucidate the climatic and environmental aspects of the habitats where the megafauna lived (e.g. MacFadden 2000, Szabó et al 2017, Stacklyn et al 2017, which would explain why these were the most cited keywords among the accessed articles. Figure 3 presents the overlapping map of the three analyzed periods.…”