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Título: | Megafauna extinction in South America: A new chronology for the Argentine Pampas |
Autor: | Prado, José Luis; Martínez-Maza, Cayetana; Alberdi, María Teresa | Palabras clave: | Megafauna extinction South America Pampas Radiocarbon dates Late Pleistocene |
Fecha de publicación: | 2015 | Editor: | Elsevier | Citación: | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 425: 41-49 (2015) | Resumen: | The megafauna extinction in South America was one of the most profound events, with the loss of 50 genera (~83%). Three orders disappeared (Notoungulata, Proboscidea, Litopterna), as did all large xenarthrans, but how this fits into global extinction is uncertain, mainly due to the lack of chronological resolution. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of radiocarbon dating at archeological and paleontological sites, but this information varies greatly from area to area in South America, and few data can be considered to constitute a taxon-date. The timing of the late Pleistocene extinction in the Pampas is poorly established.Most taxa only appear in the biostratigraphic context and many reported 14C dates do not meet rigorous criteria for accepting dates, including reports suggesting survival of megafauna into the Holocene. In the present paper, we evaluate the published radiocarbon dates in the pampas and present 20 new radiocarbon dates for paleontological sites in order to establish a more accurate “extinction window” for the key taxa. These new dates are sufficiently robust to assess correspondences among last-appearance records of megafauna, first-appearance records of humans, and the Younger Dryas to Holocene climatic transition in the Argentine Pampas. These results highlight the need for greater effort in taxa selection for dating. | Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.026 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/114680 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.026 | ISSN: | 0031-0182 | E-ISSN: | 1872-616X |
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