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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Sigmodontines (rodentia: cricetidae) from the pleistocene-holocene boundary o fthe tafí valley (tucumán, argentina): taxonomy, taphonomy and paleoenvironmental significance [PDF]
A fossilsample of sigmodontine rodents from Tafí del Valle, Tucumán, Argentina (26º 51´ 43´´ S, 65º 43´ 06´´ W, 2007 m) was studied. A radiocarbon datation on bone fragments indicates that the sample can be referred to the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary ...
Jayat, Jorge Pablo, Ortiz, Pablo Edmundo
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Cauca: megafaunal and felid fossils (Mammalia) from a Pleistocene site in northwest Venezuela [PDF]
Numerous surveys and three excavation and surface collection field seasons resulted in the discovery of numerous megafaunal remains and that of a medium-sized felid in a new site located on the coastal plain of the Gulf of Venezuela, in Western Falcón ...
Carlini, Alfredo Armando +11 more
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Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA. [PDF]
Baleka S +7 more
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The ghost of hosts past: impacts of host extinction on parasite specificity. [PDF]
Farrell MJ +8 more
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Megafauna pleistocênica do Brasil: revisão sobre os indícios de interação hominíneos-megafauna [PDF]
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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Mastodon footprints found to be water erosion in the Quebrada de Chalán (Licto, Ecuador). [PDF]
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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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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