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 …

Nearctic ungulates such as artiodactyls, perissodactyls, and proboscideans arrived in South
America during the Great American Biotic Interchange. Among them are camelids, cervids …

Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the
continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and …

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 …

Proboscideans are so-called ecosystem engineers and are considered key players in
hypotheses about Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions. However, knowledge about the …

We report the first radiocarbon datings and carbon (δ 13 C) and oxygen (δ 18 O) stable
isotopes data to reconstruct the paleoecology of medium to large herbivorous mammals …

Notiomastodon platensis was an endemic South American proboscidean, which could reach
about six tons and had a mixed feeder diet with predominance of C 4 grasses in Brazilian …

The contemporary mammalian communities of South America were defined by the rise of the
Isthmus of Panama and by the deep climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene …

Abstract The Laguna de Tagua Tagua has yielded two important late Pleistocene
archaeological sites, Taguatagua 1 and Taguatagua 2, in which a clear early human …

The drivers of the global Quaternary megafaunal extinction are constantly being updated
and discussed. Most paleoarchaeological sites in South America with proboscideans and …