A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay)

L Varela, L Clavijo, PS Tambusso, RA Fariña - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The analysis of stable isotopes on fossil mammals has become a widely used tool for
understanding the paleoecology and paleodiet of these organisms. In this work, we study …

Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth

D Voglino, JD Carrillo-Briceño, H Furrer… - Swiss Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Santiago Roth was a Swiss fossil finder, naturalist, and paleontologist that
emigrated to Argentina in 1866. His work largely influenced the discipline in the country at …

Occurrence of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops (Xenarthra, Folivora) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay: new information on its dietary and habitat preferences based …

L Varela, PS Tambusso, HG McDonald… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Sloths represent one of the most successful South American clades that reached North
America during the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). At least four families are …

A tale of two continents (and a few islands): Ecology and distribution of Late Pleistocene sloths

HG McDonald - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Late Pleistocene sloths were widely distributed and present in a diversity of habitats in
South, Central, and North America and some Caribbean Islands. Late Pleistocene sloths …

Continent-Wide Patterns in Mammal Community Structure: Diet, Locomotion, and Body Mass

K Lintulaakso, K Kovarovic - Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas …, 2023 - Springer
Tropical vegetation categories in Africa, America and Asia can be differentiated by their
mammal communities. We studied 163 localities assigned to Olson's (1983) vegetation …

After the mammoths: The ecological legacy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions

FA Smith, EAE Smith, CP Hedberg… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The significant extinctions in Earth history have largely been unpredictable in terms of what
species perish and what traits make species susceptible. The extinctions occurring during …

Paleobiology of Pleistocene large land mammals from the Brazilian Pampa

TS Carrasco, AM Ribeiro, GS da Mota… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The southern Brazilian Pleistocene fauna exhibited a rich diversity of large
mammalian herbivores, which are now extinct or locally extinct. In this study, we employed …

Pleistocene South American native ungulates (Notoungulata and Litopterna) of the historical Roth collections in Switzerland, from the Pampean Region of Argentina

JD Carrillo, HP Püschel - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2023 - Springer
The fossil collections made by early explorers in South America have been fundamental to
reveal the past diversity of extinct mammals and unravel their evolutionary history. One …

Conceptual challenges for the paleoecological reconstruction of the Pleistocene Pampean megafauna and the consequences of its extinction

SF Vizcaíno, MS Bargo, N Toledo… - … Electrónica de la …, 2023 - peapaleontologica.org.ar
Resumen La Megafauna Pampeana del Pleistoceno (MPP) puede considerarse como el
conjunto formado principalmente por grandes mamíferos (ie, masa corporal≥ 45 kg) que …

[HTML][HTML] Late Miocene mammalian burrows in the Camacho Formation of Uruguay reveal a complex community of ecosystem engineers

L Varela, X Martínez-Blanco, R Ugalde, PS Tambusso… - Evolving Earth, 2023 - Elsevier
We report fossil mammal burrows from backshore beach facies in the Camacho Formation of
southern Uruguay, of Late Miocene (Huayquerian SALMA) age. The presence of desiccation …