Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA [PDF]
, 2021 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. Morphological studies are enhanced by paleogenetic
Baleka, Sina +7 more
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Taxonomía de los gonfoterios en Chile. Necesidad de una revisión [PDF]
, 2021 En Chile, los gonfoterios conforman un grupo ancestral de proboscídeos que evidencia una gran presencia y distribución geográfica especialmente durante el Pleistoceno Superior con un amplio registro fósil que conforma una importante colección de ...
Castillo Cornejo, Juan +1 more
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A Lujanian local fauna (Upper Pleistocene-Lower Holocene) from southern Uruguay: Santa Regina, Colonia department. [PDF]
, 2021 On the southwestern coast of Uruguay, in the Colonia and San José departments, sedimentary rocks that correspond to the Neogene and Quaternary are found.
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Mamíferos continentales del Mioceno tardío a la actualidad en la Argentina: cincuenta años de estudios [PDF]
, 2007 Ameghiniana was created 50 years ago. During this lapse, the late Cenozoic paleomastozoology developed exponentially in Argentina. Many of the papers dealed with systematics.
Bargo, María Susana +22 more
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Did humans cause the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene mammalian extinctions in South America in a context of shrinking open areas? [PDF]
, 2008 The last important –and possibly the most spectacular– turnover in South American mammal history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamammal species and about 80% of large mammal species became extinct.
Cione, Alberto Luis +3 more
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Phytolith analysis from Los Loros profile, El Palmar Formation (Upper Pleistocene) in El Palmar National Park, Entre Ríos, Argentina [PDF]
, 2014 En la presente contribución se describen las asociaciones fitolíticas de la Formación El Palmar (Pleistoceno superior) en el perfil Los Loros, ubicado en el Parque Nacional El Palmar, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Brea, Mariana +2 more
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Infomap Bioregions: Interactive mapping of biogeographical regions from species distributions [PDF]
, 2016 Biogeographical regions (bioregions) reveal how different sets of species are spatially grouped and therefore are important units for conservation, historical biogeography, ecology and evolution. Several methods have been developed to identify bioregions
Antonelli, Alexandre +4 more
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Una revisión de los mastodontes argentinos [PDF]
, 1930 Durante los cuarenta años transcurridos desde que apareció la monumental obra de Ameghino sobre los mamíferos fósiles de la Argentina, mientras se han publicado acerca del mastodonte de los Andes tres valiosas monografías, debidas a Nordenskióld ...
Cabrera, Ángel Lulio
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Sixty years after ‘The mastodonts of Brazil’: The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) [PDF]
, 2016 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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Megafauna pleistocênica do Brasil: revisão sobre os indícios de interação hominíneos-megafauna [PDF]
, 2022 South America has suffered the greatest proportional loss of species diversity of Pleistocene megafauna, more than any other continent. Estimates indicate that about 80% of the genus of animals weighing more than 44 kg have been lost.
Maciel, Virgínia Silva
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