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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, Luciano Varela, P. Sebastián Tambusso, Johanna L.A. Paijmans, Dimila Mothé, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., Richard A. Fariña, Michael Hofreiter   +7 more
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Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview [PDF]

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2023
Nearctic ungulates such as artiodactyls, perissodactyls, and proboscideans arrived in South America during the Great American Biotic Interchange. Among them are camelids, cervids, tayassuids, equids, tapirids and gomphotherids. A historical collection of
Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Raúl I. Vezzosi, Keesha M. Ming, Zoe M. Christen, Dimila Mothé, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra   +6 more
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Ice Age megafauna rock art in the Colombian Amazon? [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022
Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and megafauna during the global human expansion as unfamiliar landscapes were humanized and ...
Iriarte J, Ziegler MJ, Outram AK, Robinson M, Roberts P, Aceituno FJ, Morcote-Ríos G, Keesey TM.   +7 more
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Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2021
In the 1970s, Paul Martin proposed that big game hunters armed with fluted projectile points colonized the Americas and drove the extinction of megafauna.
Prates L, Perez SI.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Cauca: megafaunal and felid fossils (Mammalia) from a Pleistocene site in northwest Venezuela [PDF]

Fossil Record
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 ...
Jorge Domingo Carrillo-Briceño, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, Rodolfo Sánchez, Arturo Jaimes, Edwin Chávez-Aponte, Francisco Juan Prevosti, Valentina Segura, Alfredo Armando Carlini, Lisa Garbé, Olivier Tombret, Antoine Zazzo, Marcelo Ricardo Sánchez-Villagra   +11 more
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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, Søren Faurby, Ricardo J. Sawaya   +2 more
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NOTA SOBRE A OCORRÊNCIA DE Eremotherium laurillardi (LUND, 1842) (MAMMALIA, XENARTHRA, MEGATHERIIDAE) E Notiomastodon (MAMMALIA, GOMPHOTHERIIDAE, PROBOSCIDEA) NO MUNICÍPIO DE BARRA DE SANTANA, PARAÍBA, BRASIL [PDF]

REVISTA TARAIRIÚ
A presente comunicação visa relatar novas ocorrências de Eremotherium laurillardi (Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) e Notiomastodon platensis (Gomphotheriidae, Proboscidea) no Sítio Paleontológico Barriguda II, município Barra de Santana, Paraíba.
De Souza Santos , Juvandi, Tavares Marinho, Ricardo Bernardo, Trindade Dantas, Mario André   +2 more
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First record of Notiomastodon platensis (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from Bolívia

Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 2017
Proboscideans are common constituents of the Quaternary megafauna in South America and their remains have been recovered over the entire continent; however, the records of Notiomastodon platensis are unknown in Bolivia, Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname. In this study, we describe the first record of Notiomastodon platensis from Bolivia.
Dimila Mothé, Willer Flores Aguanta, Sabrina Larissa Belatto, Leonardo Avilla   +3 more
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Técnica de Extração de Palinomorfos em Cálculos Dentários de Gonfotérios Sul-Americanos [PDF]

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 2016
Foi desenvolvida uma técnica de laboratório para a extração de palinomorfos de cálculos dentários de indivíduos do gonfotério sul-americano Notiomastodon platensis.
Shana Yuri Misumi, Lidiane Asevedo, Leonardo dos Santos Avilla, Ortrud Monika Barth, Marcia Aguiar de Barros   +4 more
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NUEVOS REGISTROS DE MAMÍFEROS DEL PLEISTOCENO TARDÍO (MIS 5) EN EL SUR DE LA MESOPOTAMIA ARGENTINA

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 2023
En esta contribución se dan a conocer nuevos registros de mamíferos del Pleistoceno Tardío de la Provincia de Entre Ríos. Los fósiles provienen de la Formación Salto Ander Egg, una unidad depositada en los valles fluviales del sudoeste entrerriano con ...
Brenda S. Ferrero, Jorge I. Noriega
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