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History of canids in Chile and impacts on prey adaptations. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 South American artiodactyls seem to be highly susceptible to feral dog predation, presenting a major conservation threat—why? We synthesize evidence as to whether feral dogs represent the first group‐hunting cursorial predator in regional evolutionary history.
Silva Rochefort B, Root-Bernstein M.
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Ecology of a widespread large omnivore, Homo sapiens, and its impacts on ecosystem processes. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 The ecology of humans is usually considered separately and often using different concepts to those used for other species. We propose an ecological approach to humans based on the joint consideration of intraspecific variation and interspecific comparison.
Root-Bernstein M, Ladle R.
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Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size and form of extinct animals. [PDF]
Ecol EvolReconstructing the body size and form of extinct animals is of vital importance to our understanding of macroevolution and palaeontology. This is often done using anatomical proxies where extinct species are known only from fragmentary remains. However, there are many limitations influencing the selection of proxy taxa that are frequently overlooked ...
Gayford JH +7 more
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Guanaco colonisation of Tierra del Fuego Island from mainland Patagonia: Walked, swam, or by canoe?
Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 9, Issue 2, July‐December 2022., 2022 A geographical and biological puzzle that has perplexed scientists since the late 1800s working in southern South America: why are there so few vertebrates on the island of Tierra del Fuego compared to the adjacent Patagonia mainland, including the absence of the ubiquitous Guanaco (Lama guanicoe), wild camelid of the south? An interdisciplinary search
William L. Franklin
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Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2023 Santiago Roth (1850–1924) was a naturalist that collected and sold fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina) in Europe. Much of the specimens collected by Roth are hosted at the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich and Muséun D ...
Damián Ruiz-Ramoni +3 more
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Estudios Geologicos, 2015 Se presenta la descripción de un I3 asignado a Arctotherium sp. proveniente del sitio Baño Nuevo-1 (Patagonia Central, Chile). El hallazgo fue realizado en la Capa 5 y está asociado a restos de Macrauchenia sp., Lama guanicoe, Felidae, Camelidae, Equidae
P. López Mendoza +2 more
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Late Pleistocene carnivores (Carnivora: Mammalia) from a cave sedimentary deposit in northern Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2014 The Brazilian Quaternary terrestrial Carnivora are represented by the following families: Canidae, Felidae, Ursidae, Procyonidae Mephitidae and Mustelidae. Their recent evolutionary history in South America is associated with the uplift of the Panamanian
SHIRLLEY RODRIGUES +3 more
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Spectroscopic Characterization of Eoholocene Bones Found in a Cave in Northeast Brazil
Journal of Spectroscopy, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 The preservation of fossils depends on several interactions of organic and inorganic chemical processes. The hard parts, which are more suitable for fossilization, might record valuable information of biogenic processes, while the taphonomic characteristics supply information on postmortem chemical transformation.
P. V. Oliveira +8 more
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Palaeontology, Volume 68, Issue 4, July/August 2025.Abstract Taphonomic studies of Cenozoic mammals are scarce. We report a study of the taphonomy of the Corralito site (Middle Pleistocene to Holocene), Córdoba Province, Argentina, which documents the last population of the South American native ungulate typotherid Mesotherium cristatum. We discovered two specimens of M.
Marcos Fernández‐Monescillo +6 more
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Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 2009 Contar con estimaciones precisas de la masa corporal de los taxones fósiles es esencial para realizar reconstrucciones paleobiológicas. Empleando relaciones demostradas entre la masa corporal y medidas anatómicas en mamíferos modernos algunos autores han
Leopoldo Héctor Soibelzon +1 more
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