[图书][B] The great American biotic interchange: a South American perspective

The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) between North and South America is one of
the most important events in the history of land mammals. The first authors that considered …

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 …

Paleoenvironmental evolution of southern South America during the Cenozoic

E Ortiz-Jaureguizar, GA Cladera - Journal of Arid Environments, 2006 - Elsevier
Southern South America (SSA) has today a high diversity of climates, environments, biomes,
and biotas, as a result of the complex interaction through time of plants and animals with the …

The Brazilian megamastofauna of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition and its relationship with the early human settlement of the continent

A Hubbe, M Hubbe, WA Neves - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the most intriguing questions regarding the Brazilian Late Quaternary extinct
megafauna and Homo sapiens is to what extent they coexisted and how humans could have …

Of mice, mastodons and men: human-mediated extinctions on four continents

SK Lyons, FA Smith, JH Brown - Evolutionary Ecology …, 2004 - evolutionary-ecology.com
Numerous anthropological and ecological hypotheses have been proposed to explain the
extinction of many large-bodied mammals at the terminal Pleistocene. We find that body size …

[PDF][PDF] Body mass estimations in Lujanian (late Pleistocene-early Holocene of South America) mammal megafauna

RA Fariña, SF Vizcaíno, MS Bargo - Mastozoología Neotropical, 1998 - researchgate.net
METHODS Seven species of xenarthrans (three glyptodonts and four ground sloths) and six
species of epitherians (one notoungulate, one litoptern, one perissodactyl, one …

[图书][B] Evolution of South American mammalian predators during the Cenozoic: paleobiogeographic and paleoenvironmental contingencies

FJ Prevosti, AM Forasiepi - 2018 - books.google.com
This book summarizes the evolution of carnivorous mammals in the Cenozoic of South
America. It presents paleontological information on the two main mammalian carnivorous …

Paleoecological reconstruction of a lower Pleistocene large mammal community using biogeochemical (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, Sr: Zn) and ecomorphological …

P Palmqvist, DR Gröcke, A Arribas, RA Farina - Paleobiology, 2003 - cambridge.org
Ecomorphological and biogeochemical (trace element, and carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen
isotope ratios) analyses have been used for determining the dietary niches and habitat …

The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua

F Delsuc, FM Ctzeflis… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mammalian order Xenarthra (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) is one of the four major
clades of placentals, but it remains poorly studied from the molecular phylogenetics …

[图书][B] Megafauna: giant beasts of pleistocene South America

RA Fariña, SF Vizcaíno, G De Iuliis - 2013 - books.google.com
“An enjoyable read that provides a substantial amount of detail on the biology, ecology, and
distribution of these fantastic animals... Highly recommended.”—Choice More than 10,000 …