Diets of modern and late Miocene hippopotamids: Evidence from carbon isotope composition and micro-wear of tooth enamel

By J. Boisserie, A. Zazzo, G. Merceron, C. Blondel, P. Vignaud, A. Likius, H. Mackaye, M. Brunet. 2005

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Identifying Aquatic Habits Of Herbivorous Mammals Through Stable Isotope Analysis (2008, background): “Recent stable isotope and microwear analyses of living individuals found in open and closed canopy conditions, however, have shown that the relative percentage of C4 grass in the diet is closely correlated with habitat and can vary from 30% to 100% (Boisserie et al., 2005b).”
Hypsodonty in ungulates: an adaptation for grass consumption or for foraging in open habitat? (2008, background): “Moreover, a recent study of the isotopic composition of enamel in several populations ofHi. amphibious has shown that hippos have a more varied diet than usually believed, including significant amounts of C3 plants in closed to moderately open environments (Boisserie et al., 2005).”
Oxygen isotope evidence for semi-aquatic habits among spinosaurid theropods (2010, background): “Considering that compared animals have similar diets (both hippopotamuses and other coexisting herbivorous mammals feed on land plants [Boisserie et al., 2005], and spinosaurs were predators like coexisting crocodilians and other theropods) and thermoregulations (mammals and theropod dinosaurs are…”