The Pliocene site of Kanapoi is key to our understanding of the environmental context of the earliest species of Australopithecus. Various approaches have been used to reconstruct the environments of this site, and here we contribute new data and analyses using mesowear and hypsodonty. The dental traits of 98 bovids, suids and rhinocerotids from Kanapoi were analyzed using these proxies. Results indicate that most of the animals analyzed had a relatively abrasive diet. Bovids in the assemblage incorporated more grass into their diet than do modern species of the same tribe or genus. Although Pliocene Kanapoi likely had complex environments, our analysis indicates that grassy habitats were a dominant component of the ecosystem, a conclusion that supports the results of previous investigations of the paleoecology of the site.

中文翻译：

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Kanapoi的有蹄类动物化石中牙齿磨损和催眠的古生态意义。

Kanapoi的上新世遗址是我们了解南方古猿最早物种的环境背景的关键。已经使用了各种方法来重建该站点的环境，在这里，我们使用中磨损和催眠术贡献了新的数据和分析。使用这些代理分析了来自Kanapoi的98个牛科动物，猪鼻和犀牛的牙齿特征。结果表明，所分析的大多数动物的饮食都比较粗糙。与同一部落或属的现代物种相比，该组合中的牛科动物在其饮食中添加了更多的草。尽管上新世卡纳波伊可能具有复杂的环境，但我们的分析表明，草地生境是生态系统的主要组成部分，这一结论支持先前对该地点古生态学调查的结果。