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Using Astragalus to Model Body Mass, Habitat Preference, and Population Density of Prehistoric Bovid Duboisia santeng (Dubois, 1891) in Eastern Java island in The Early Pleistocene
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: Received: 20 September 2020 / Approved: 22 September 2020 / Online: 22 September 2020 (11:37:26 CEST)
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Wibowo, A. Using Astragalus to Model Body Mass, Habitat Preference, and Population Density of Prehistoric Bovid Duboisia santeng (Dubois, 1891) in Eastern Java island in The Early Pleistocene. Preprints2020, 2020090522. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0522.v1
Wibowo, A. Using Astragalus to Model Body Mass, Habitat Preference, and Population Density of Prehistoric Bovid Duboisia santeng (Dubois, 1891) in Eastern Java island in The Early Pleistocene. Preprints 2020, 2020090522. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0522.v1
Wibowo, A. Using Astragalus to Model Body Mass, Habitat Preference, and Population Density of Prehistoric Bovid Duboisia santeng (Dubois, 1891) in Eastern Java island in The Early Pleistocene. Preprints2020, 2020090522. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0522.v1
APA Style
Wibowo, A. (2020). Using Astragalus to Model Body Mass, Habitat Preference, and Population Density of Prehistoric Bovid <em>Duboisia santeng</em> (Dubois, 1891) in Eastern Java island in The Early Pleistocene. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0522.v1
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Wibowo, A. 2020 "Using Astragalus to Model Body Mass, Habitat Preference, and Population Density of Prehistoric Bovid <em>Duboisia santeng</em> (Dubois, 1891) in Eastern Java island in The Early Pleistocene" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0522.v1
Abstract
Astragalus bone is one of the most important fossil records as it can reconstruct the prehistoric life. Respectively, this study aims to model the body mass, habitat preference, and population density of prehistoric bovid Duboisia santeng (Dubois 1891) in eastern Java island in the early Pleistocene. The astragali from 9 specimens were used to estimate the body mass and population density. Likewise regression models are used to analyze the relationship between astragalus lateral length, width, and body mass compared to the astragalus of extant Bovid species. The result revealed the body mass average was 60.3 kg (95%CI: 58.9-61.7) and this indicates the D. santeng belongs to large herbivores. While the population density was estimated at about 5.39 individuals per km2 (95% CI: 3.18-7.6).
Keywords
astragalus; body mass; Bovid; Pleistocene; population density
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Paleontology
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