Changes in hind limb proportions in Quaternary large carnivores in Northern Europe

• Main Author: Paasi, Teea
• Other Authors: Helsingin yliopisto, Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, Geotieteiden ja maantieteen laitos, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsingfors universitet, Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för geovetenskaper och geografi
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Helsingfors universitet 2016
• Subjects: Geology; Geologia; Geologi; Tooth The; Canis lupus; Gulo gulo; Ursus arctos; Lynx; Lynx lynx lynx
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/230469

The Pleistocene (2588-11,2 ka) is known as the time of the ice age. The ice age ended at the beginning of the warm and more humid Holocene. Large carnivorous predators, which survived the transition, have adapted to the current new environments. The goal of this thesis was to compare the osteologica...