2022/04/13 by Marcelo C. Greco, Mário André Trindade Dantas, Mário Alberto Cozzuol · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Psychology · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Primate Behavior and Ecology
paper · doi:10.1002/jqs.3426
openalex publication_date 2022/04/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
ABSTRACT Camelids have been known in South America since the late Pliocene, where they arrived from North America as part of the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). They became extinct in North America by the late Pleistocene, while surviving in the Southern Cone of South America and in high altitudes of the Andean region. Extinct South American camelids are generally included in the genera Palaeolama and Hemiauchenia , members of which are larger than modern species. We describe here a new, small species of the genus Hemiauchenia based on late Pleistocene specimens previously assigned to Lama guanicoe . This specimen lived in northeastern Brazil at 22 345–21 907 cal a bp , and had a diet composed mainly of C3 plants.