Publications Scientifiques

2011

Boisserie, Merceron (2011) : Correlating the success of Hippopotaminae with the C4 expansion in Africa : relationship and dietof early Pliocene hippopotamids from Langebaanweg, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology in press

2010

Ramdarshan, Merceron, Tafforeau, Marivaux (2010) : Dietary reconstruction of the Amphipithecidae (Primates, Anthropidea) from the Paleogene of South Asia and paleoecological implications. Journal of Human Evolution 59, 96-108

Merceron, Kaiser, Kostopoulos, Schulz (2010) : Ruminant diets and the Miocene extinction of European great apes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 277, 3105-3112

Merceron, Escarguel, Angibault, Verheyden-Tixier (2010) : Can dental microwear textures record inter-individual dietary variations ? PLoS ONE 5, e9542

Blondel, Merceron, Andossa, Mackaye Taisso, Vignaud, Brunet (2010) : Dental mesowear analysis of the late Miocene Bovidae from Toros-Menalla (Chad) and early hominid habitats in Central Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 292, 184-191

Calandra, Göhlich, Merceron (2010) : Feeding preferences of Gomphotherium subtapirodeum (Prosboscidea, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Sandelhauzen (Northern Alpine Foreland Basin, southen Germany) through life and geological time : evidence from dental microwear analysis. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 84, 205-215

2010

Peigné, Goillot, Germonpré, Blondel, Bignon, Merceron (2009) : Reply to Bocherens : Dental microwear and stable isotopes on bone collagen are complementary to sort out cave bears diet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, E134

Peigné, Goillot, Germonpré, Blondel, Bignon, Merceron (2009) : Predormancy omnivory in European cave bears evidenced by a dental microwear analysis of Ursus spelaeus from Goyet, Belgium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 15390-15393

Merceron, Scott, Scott, Geraads, Spassov, Ungar (2009) : Folivory or fruit/seed predation for Mesopithecus, an earliest colobine from the late Miocene of Eurasia ? Journal of Human Evolution 57, 732-738

Peigné, Merceron, Koufos (2009) : Louis de Bonis : 50 years of paleontological research on mammals. Geodiversitas 31, 693-707

Merceron, Koufos, Valentin (2009) : Feeding habits of the first European colobine, Mesopithecus (Mammalia, Primates) : evidence from a comparative dental microwear analysis with modern cercopithecids. Geodiversitas 31, 865-878

Koufos, Kostopoulos, Merceron (2009) : The late Miocene mammal faunes of the Mytilinii basin, Samos Island, Greece : New collection. 17. Palaeoecology – Palaeobiogeography. Beitrage für Paläontologie 31, 409-430

Rodrigues, Merceron, Viriot (2009) : A paleoecological approach of murid rodents inferred from dental microwear : the case of the fossil species Saïdomys afarensis from the Hadar Formation (Pliocene, Ethiopia). Naturwissenschaften 96, 537-542

2008

Calandra, Göhlich, Merceron (2008) : How could sympatric megaherbivores coexist ? Example of niche partitioning within a proboscidean community from the Miocene of Europe. Naturwissenschaften 95, 831-838

2007

Merceron, Schulz, Kordos, Kaiser (2007) : Palaeoenvironment of Dryopithecus brancoi at Rudabánya, Hungary : evidence from dental meso- and micro-wear analyses of large herbivorous mammals. Journal of Human Evolution 53, 331-349

Merceron, Blondel, Viriot, Koufos, de Bonis (2007) : Dental microwear analysis on bovids from the Vallesian (Late Miocene) of the Axios Valley in Greece : reconstruction of the habitat of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Primates, Hominoidea). Geodiversitas 29, 421-433

Ungar, Merceron, Scott (2007) : Dental microwear texture analysis of Varswater bovids and early Pliocene paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 14, 163-181

Schulz, Fahlke, Merceron, Kaiser (2007) : Feeding ecology of the Chalicotheriidae – results from dental micro- and mesowear analyses. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Hamburg 43, 5-31

2006

Merceron, Zazzo, Spassov, Geraads, Kovachev (2006) : Bovid paleoecology and paleoenvironments from the late Miocene of Bulgaria : evidence from dental microwear and stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 241, 637-654

Merceron, Madelaine (2006) : Molar microwear pattern and paleoecology of ungulates from La Berbie (Dordogne, France) : environment of Neanderthals and modern human populations at the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic. Boreas 35, 272-278

Merceron, Taylor, Scott, Chaimanee, Jaeger (2006) : Dietary characterization of the hominoid Khoratpithecus (Miocene of Thailand) : evidence from dental topographic and microwear texture analyses. Naturwissenschaften 93, 329-333

Koufos, Merceron, Kostopoulos, Vlachou, Sylvestrou (2006) : The late Miocene vertebrate locality of Perivolaki, Thessaly, Greece. 11. Palaeoecology and Palaeobiogeography. Palaeontographica A 276, 201-221

Macchiarelli, Bondioli, Caropreso, Mazurier, Merceron, Piana (2006) : The oldest human remains from the Beagle Channel Region, Tierra del Fuego. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 16, 328-337.

2005

Merceron, de Bonis, Viriot, Blondel (2005) : Dental microwear of fossil bovids from Northern Greece and paleoenvironmental conditions in Eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 217, 173-185

Merceron, Blondel, Viriot, Koufos, de Bonis (2005) : A new method of dental microwear analysis : application to extant Primates and Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Late Miocene of Greece). Palaios 20, 551-561

Merceron, de Bonis, Viriot, Blondel (2005) : Dental microwear of the Late Miocene bovids of Northern Greece : the Vallesian/Turolian environmental changes as explanation of the disappearance of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis ? Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 176, 491-500

Merceron, Ungar (2005) : Dental microwear and palaeoecology of bovids from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa. South African Journal of Sciences 101, 365-370

Boisserie, Zazzo, Merceron, Blondel, Vignaud, Likius, Hassane, Brunet (2005) : Diets of modern and late Miocene hippopotamids : evidence from carbon isotope composition and micro-wear of tooth enamel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 221, 153-174

2004

Merceron, Viriot, Blondel (2004) : Dental microwear pattern and seasonal food composition of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus, L.) from Chizé (Western France). Small Ruminant Research 53, 125-132

Merceron, Blondel, Brunet, Sen, Solounias, Viriot, Heintz (2004) : The late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 207, 143-163

2002

Brunet et al. (incluant Merceron) (2002) : A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. Nature 418, 145-151