The dispersal of primitive elephantines and monodactyl equids in Eurasia has long been
regarded as representative of a substantial turnover in mammal faunas, denoting the spread …

Background Over the last decades, there has been an increasing interest on the chronology,
distribution and mammal taxonomy (including hominins) related with the faunal turnovers …

The history of land mammals is characterized by “dispersal events”, ie short periods of rapid
intercontinental migrations and faunal replacements. One of these, the Elephant-Equus …

This paper re-apprises the scant elephant remains belonging to a dwarf Palaeoloxodon of
uncertain taxonomy collected during the 1980s from a cave on Favignana Island (Aegadian …

The ecology and behaviour of woolly and Columbian mammoths and mastodons have been
extensively studied. Despite this, their patterns of mobility, and particularly the question of …

Equus stenonis is one of the most iconic fossil species of the Early Pleistocene. Although it is
known from the 19th century, its taxonomic and evolutionary position has been extensively …

Dispersal of mammals into Europe at the beginning of the Eocene is conventionally
interpreted as being solely from North America via the Greenland land bridge, as other …

Cold Stage, became extinct during the Late Glacial (Stuart 1991). There are a number of
records from north-western and central Europe as late as 13,000 to 12,000 BP, but none so …

The analysis of human evolution should not leave aside the evaluation of faunal and
paleoenvironmental changes. As far as the evolution of the genus Homo is concerned, it …

Abstract The equidsubfamily Equinae radiated 17.5 Ma in the New World and reached the
Old World at around 11 Ma. The New World radiationcomprised three tribes (Hipparionini …