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Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas

Science Advances, 2019
14C dates disprove Holocene survival of Pleistocene megafauna in the Pampas and show humans hunted Megatherium at 12,600 CAL BP. The extinction of Pleistocene megafauna and the role played by humans have been subjects of constant debate in American ...
Gustavo G. Politis, Pablo G. Messineo, T. Stafford, E. Lindsey   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Today, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aldabra Atoll is home to about 100 000 giant tortoises, Aldabrachelys gigantea, whose fossil record goes back to the Late Pleistocene. New Late Pleistocene fossils (age ca.
Torsten M. Scheyer, Massimo Delfino, Nicole Klein, Nancy Bunbury, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley, Dennis M. Hansen   +5 more
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]

, 2018
Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
Brilli, M, Giustini, F, Iurino, Da, Lembo, G, Massussi, M, Mazzini, I, Mecozzi, B, Muttillo, B, Sardella, R, Sigari, D, Tucci, S, Voltaggio, M   +11 more
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Ancient DNA suggests modern wolves trace their origin to a Late Pleistocene expansion from Beringia

bioRxiv, 2018
Grey wolves (Canis lupus) are one of the few large terrestrial carnivores that maintained a wide geographic distribution across the Northern Hemisphere throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene.
Liisa Loog, O. Thalmann, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, V. Schuenemann, V. Schuenemann, Angela R. Perri, M. Germonpré, H. Bocherens, K. Witt, J. S. Castruita, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, I. Lundstrøm, N. Wales, N. Wales, G. Sonet, L. Frantz, H. Schroeder, Jane A. Budd, Elodie‐Laure Jimenez, Sergey Fedorov, B. Gasparyan, A. W. Kandel, M. Lázničková-Galetová, M. Lázničková-Galetová, H. Napierala, H. Uerpmann, P. Nikolskiy, Elena Pavlova, Elena Pavlova, V. Pitulko, K. Herzig, R. Malhi, E. Willerslev, E. Willerslev, E. Willerslev, A. Hansen, A. Hansen, K. Dobney, K. Dobney, K. Dobney, M. Gilbert, Johannes Krause, Johannes Krause, G. Larson, A. Eriksson, A. Eriksson, A. Eriksson, A. Manica   +49 more
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New insight into the Pleistocene deposits of Monte delle Piche, Rome, and remarks on the biochronology of Hippopotamus (Mammalia, Hippopotamidae) and Stephanorhinus etruscus (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) in Italy [PDF]

, 2015
Several large mammal assemblages have been collected in the Roman basin since the XIX century, but they usually lack any stratigraphic datum or details about the fossiliferous localities. In this work, the stratigraphic provenance of large mammal remains
Frezza, Virgilio, Grossi, F., Pandolfi, L.   +2 more
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Short-tailed mice with a long fossil record: the genus Leggadina (Rodentia: Muridae) from the Quaternary of Queensland, Australia [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
The genus Leggadina (colloquially known as ‘short-tailed mice’) is a common component of Quaternary faunas of northeastern Australia. They represent a member of the Australian old endemic murid radiation that arrived on the continent sometime during the ...
Jonathan Cramb, Gilbert J. Price, Scott A. Hocknull   +2 more
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Paleobiogeography of Crown Deer

Earth, 2022
The article describes the paleobiogeographic history of the modern subfamilies so-called “crown deer” of the family Cervidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) in the world from the late Miocene to the late Pleistocene.
Roman Croitor
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Dimorphism in quaternary scelidotheriinae (mammalia, xenarthra, phyllophaga) [PDF]

, 2015
The contributions concerning possible cases of sexual dimorphisms in fossil and living sloths are scarce. Until now, studies in fossil ground sloth sexual dimorphism have been limited to the subfamilies Megatheriinae (Eremotherium) and Mylodontinae ...
Miño Boilini, Ángel Ramón, Zurita, Alfredo Eduardo   +1 more
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Subsurface geology of the Torino metropolitan area (Westernmost Po Plain, NW Italy)

Journal of Maps
The 1:100,000 subsurface geological map of the Torino metropolitan area covers ∼900 km2 in the westernmost Po Plain, an area of great relevance being crossed by the late Neogene to Quaternary ‘Torino Hill Front’ (THF), a tens of kilometers long, NW ...
Andrea Irace, Igor Marcelli, Gianfranco Fioraso, Andrea Festa, Rita Catanzariti, Brunella Raco, Matia Menichini, Giulio Masetti, Elisa Brussolo, Gianna Vivaldo, Marco Doveri   +10 more
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Solving the woolly mammoth conundrum: amino acid 15N-enrichment suggests a distinct forage or habitat [PDF]

, 2015
Understanding woolly mammoth ecology is key to understanding Pleistocene community dynamics and evaluating the roles of human hunting and climate change in late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions. Previous isotopic studies of mammoths’ diet and physiology
Longstaffe, Fred J, Metcalfe, Jessica Z, Schwartz-Narbonne, Rachel, Zazula, Grant   +3 more
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