Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Prates L, Perez SI.
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, 2016 A molar of mastodon recovered from the inner continental shelf of the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica is described. This found, represents the first fossil evidence of a terrestrial mammal that inhabited the continental shelf when it was a dry land, during the Last Glacial Maximun at the Late Pleistocene in Central America and the Caribbean Region.
Laurito, César A. +2 more
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Megafauna pleistocênica do Brasil: revisão sobre os indícios de interação hominíneos-megafauna [PDF]
, 2022 South America has suffered the greatest proportional loss of species diversity of Pleistocene megafauna, more than any other continent. Estimates indicate that about 80% of the genus of animals weighing more than 44 kg have been lost.
Maciel, Virgínia Silva
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Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA. [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Baleka S +7 more
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The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Farrell MJ +8 more
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Mastodon footprints found to be water erosion in the Quebrada de Chalán (Licto, Ecuador). [PDF]
F1000Res, 2022 Mendoza B +6 more
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Ancient Proboscidean-Ivory Artifacts from Northwestern Venezuela [PDF]
For thousands of years, ivory has been used as a raw material to produce utensils and other tools in many regions of the world. Ivory artifacts have been recovered from Late Pleistocene archaeological sites throughout North America and South America.
Becerra Valdivia, Lorena +6 more
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Museo Nacional. Problemática y debate [PDF]
, 2017 We will discuss the need to end a debt that the Peruvian Government owns to the country’s culture: the construction of an appropriate infrastructure for the National Museum in the country’s capital.
Cabanillas Delgadillo, Virgilio
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Reconstructing the Evolution of North American Gomphotheres (Mammalia, Proboscidea) through Craniomandibular Characters [PDF]
The family Gomphotheriidae is the “waste basket” of proboscidean groups. Widely accepted as paraphyletic, gomphotheres are characterized by bunolophodont molars and extreme morphological variability.
Hunter-Moffatt, Blue Margaux Louise
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Redescubrimiento de material tipo depositado en la colección del Museo de Historia Natural "Gustavo Orcés V." del Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador [PDF]
, 2011 Desde el siglo XVIII naturalistas europeos llegaron al Ecuador para realizar expediciones científicas, durante las cuales recolectaron ejemplares de flora, fauna, rocas y fósiles. Destacan personajes como Humboldt y Darwin, entre otros. A principios del
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