Specimens of Gomphotherium in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and the species-level taxonomy of Gomphotherium [PDF]
There are four identifiable specimens of Gomphotherium in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, all collected in New Mexico.
Heckert, Andrew B. +1 more
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Cainozoic mammals from coastal Namaqualand, South Africa [PDF]
Main articleFossil mamma ls from various stratigraphic levels in coastal Namaqualand reveal that the littoral marine deposits, hitherto correlated to the Plio-Pleistocene, range in age from Early Miocene to Ple istocene and Holocene.
Pickford, Martin, Senut, Brigitte
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Miocene Proboscidean Tooth Found in Evaporite Karst Sinkhole near Gate, Oklahoma [PDF]
Fragments of a proboscidean tooth were found in Neogene sediments of the Ogallala Formation within an evaporate karst sinkhole formed in Permian redbeds outside Gate, Oklahoma.
Bonnet, Bryce L. +2 more
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[EN] To reconstruct the paleodiet and habitat preference of gomphotheres, we measured the carbon and oxygen isotope composition of 32 bone and tooth samples of Stegomastodon platensis (AMEGHINO, 1888) from 10 different Pleistocene localities in Pampean Region (Argentina).
Sánchez Chillón, Begoña +2 more
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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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Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) [PDF]
Studies on South American Gomphotheriidae started around 210 years ago and, 150 years later, the classic study “The mastodonts of Brazil” by Simpson and Paula Couto (1957) attempted to clarify the complex issues related to our understanding of these ...
Asevedo, Lidiane +3 more
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Fluctuating climate and dietary innovation drove ratcheted evolution of proboscidean dental traits. [PDF]
Saarinen J, Lister AM.
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Stable isotopes reveal the northern tropical Highlands as refugia for extinct South American megafauna [PDF]
South America experienced an extinction event in the late Pleistocene that coincided with environmental and climatic changes as well as anthropogenic influences, resulting in the defaunation of equid and gomphothere megafauna across the continent.
Cruz Jr, F. +4 more
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Prado, José Luis +2 more
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Dietary Habits and Tusk Usage of Shovel-Tusked Gomphotheres from Florida: Evidence from Stereoscopic Wear of Molars and Upper and Lower Tusks. [PDF]
Semprebon GM, Pirlo J, Dudek J.
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