Tooth marker of ecological abnormality: The interpretation of stress in extinct mega herbivores (proboscideans) of the Siwaliks of Pakistan [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Climate affects living ecosystems and defines species physiology. Climate change causes certain stress on animals, recorded as Enamel Hypoplasia (EH). Proboscideans, the mega herbivores, were extensively represented in the Siwaliks of Pakistan between ...
Muhammad Ameen +4 more
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Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Summary: The extinct Gomphotheriidae is the only proboscidean family that colonized South America. The phylogenetic position of the endemic taxa has been through several revisions using morphological comparisons.
Sina Baleka +7 more
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Campamento Vespucio, una nueva localidad con mamíferos pleistocenos en la provincia de Salta, Argentina [PDF]
Estudios Geologicos, 2012 En la presente contribución damos a conocer una nueva localidad con mamíferos fósiles pleistocenos, provenientes de una región poco explorada. Los materiales fueron hallados en la Quebrada del Aguay, en Campamento Vespucio, localidad de General Mosconi ...
G. G. Zacarías +3 more
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Onthophagus pilauco sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): evidence of beetle extinction in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Chilean Northern Patagonia. [PDF]
Zookeys, 2021 The South American Pleistocene–Holocene transition has been characterized by drastic climatic and diversity changes. These rapid changes induced one of the largest and most recent extinctions in the megafauna at the continental scale.
Tello F, Verdú JR, Rossini M, Zunino M.
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A new Mammutidae (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2016 The "Yanghecun specimen", a proboscidean specimen represented by a mandible from Miocene of China and previously described as Gomphotheriidae, is here reviewed and described as a new genus and species of Mammutidae: Sinomammut tobieni.
DIMILA MOTHÉ +4 more
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Nuevas evidencias acerca de la presencia de Stegomastodon platensis Ameghino, 1888, Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae, en el Pleistoceno tardío de Chile central [PDF]
Estudios Geologicos, 2016 El presente trabajo contextualiza, describe, y asigna taxonómicamente los materiales craneales y dentales de Gomphotheriidae provenientes del sitio El Trebal 1, Pleistoceno tardío de Chile central.
R. Labarca +4 more
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Los gonfotéridos (Mammalia, Proboscidea) de Uruguay: taxonomía, estratigrafía y cronología [PDF]
Estudios Geologicos, 2015 En Uruguay se han hallado numerosos aunque relativamente fragmentarios restos de Gomphotheriidae. Pertenecientes a esta familia existen materiales asignados a la Formación Camacho (Mioceno tardío), y a unidades del Pleistoceno y Holoceno temprano ...
D. Perea, M. T. Alberdi
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La Familia Gomphotheriidae en América del Sur: evidencia de molares al norte de la Patagonia chilena [PDF]
Estudios Geologicos, 2014 Damos a conocer los estudios estadísticos hechos con diez molares M3 y m3 del centro-sur de Chile, comparados con material de gonfoterios Stegomastodon platensis, Stegomastodon waringi y Cuvieronius hyodon de América del Sur.
Omar P. Recabarren +2 more
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Population structure of the gomphothere Stegomastodon waringi (Mammalia: Proboscidea: Gomphotheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2010 The Quaternary fossil record of Águas de Araxá (Q AA) is represented mainly by an accumulation of skeletal elements of several sizes, which are assigned to a population of Stegomastodon waringi. We analyzed 97 molars according to the ear stages of Sipson
Dimila Mothé +2 more
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Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift. [PDF]
NatureResearch into the palaeobiology of extinct taxa through ancient DNA and proteomics has been mostly limited to Plio-Pleistocene fossils1-9, due to molecular breakdown over time, which is exacerbated in tropical settings1-3.
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