The palaeobiogeography of South American gomphotheres
Journal of Palaeogeography, 2013 Gomphotheriid proboscideans reached South America as Late Cenozoic immigrants from North America. However, disagreements over alpha taxonomy, age dating and phylogenetic relationships have produced three competing hypotheses about this immigration: (1) a
Spencer G. Lucas
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Late Pleistocene horse and camel hunting at the southern margin of the ice-free corridor: reassessing the age of Wally's Beach, Canada. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 The only certain evidence for prehistoric human hunting of horse and camel in North America occurs at the Wally’s Beach site, Canada. Here, the butchered remains of seven horses and one camel are associated with 29 nondiagnostic lithic artifacts.
Waters MR +3 more
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The First Sinomastodon (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea) Skull From the Quaternary in China [PDF]
Palaeontology, 2012 The first Sinomastodon (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea) skull of the Early Pleistocene, collected from the Renzidong Cave deposits in Anhui Province, Eastern China, is described here as S. jiangnanensis sp. nov.
Deng, Cheng Long +4 more
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A proboscidean from the late Oligocene of Eritrea, a "missing link" between early Elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha, and biogeographic implications. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2006 We report on a late Oligocene proboscidean species from Eritrea, dated to 26.8 ± 1.5 Mya. This “missing link” between early elephantiformes and Elephantimorpha is the oldest known nongomphothere proboscidean to probably display horizontal tooth ...
Shoshani J +9 more
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Addressing regional relationships between white-tailed deer densities and land classes. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2021 At regional scales, deer occurred at greater densities in forests and lower densities in agricultural and residential development, which did not improve habitat by supporting more deer. Deer preference for forests does result in damage to forest products.
Hanberry BB.
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Diversity of the fossil gomphotheres from South America [PDF]
Historical Biology, 2022 The contemporary mammalian communities of South America were defined by the rise of the Isthmus of Panama and by the deep climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene. Gomphotheres are a conspicuous group of North American immigrant mammals that came to South America during the late Pliocene and did not survive the great megafauna extinction ...
María T. Alberdi, José L. Prado
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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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Did the climate changes cause the extinction of the Late Pleistocene gomphotheres in South America? [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba)A global wave of megafauna extinctions occurred between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, impacting numerous large continental mammals that are crucial to ecosystem dynamics.
Evelyn N.S. Cruz +2 more
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Human (Clovis)-gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association ∼ 13,390 calibrated yBP in Sonora, Mexico. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2014 SignificanceArchaeological evidence from Sonora, Mexico, indicates that the earliest widespread and recognizable group of hunter-gatherers (“Clovis”) were in place ∼13,390 y ago in southwestern North America. This is the earliest well-documented population on the continent and suggests that the unique Clovis artifact style originated in the southwest ...
Sanchez G +9 more
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A new elephantoid dental specimen from the Miocene of Kruševac basin in Central Serbia [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2018 Elephantoid cheek teeth from the late Early and Middle Miocene of Europe frequently display mixtures of bunodont and zygodont features, making their taxonomical attributions difficult and subjective.
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