Causes and Consequences of Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions as Revealed from Rancho La Brea Mammals

2019/08/01 by Larisa R.G. DeSantis, Jonathan M. Crites, Robert S. Feranec +7 · 9 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Biology #Ecology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Megafauna #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.059

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• Dietary ecology of the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium serum
• How do small birds evolve in response to climate change? Data from the long‐term record at La Brea tar pits
• Pleistocene paleoecology and feeding behavior of terrestrial vertebrates recorded in a pre-LGM asphaltic deposit at Rancho La Brea, California
• Exceptionally preserved asphaltic coprolites expand the spatiotemporal range of a North American paleoecological proxy
• First osteohistological and histotaphonomic approach of Equus occidentalis Leidy, 1865 (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea (California, USA)
• Computed tomography reveals hip dysplasia in the extinct Pleistocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon
• An eye for a tooth:Thylacosmiluswas not a marsupial “saber-tooth predator”
• Paleobiota of the La Brea Tar Pits [wikipedia]
• Smilodon [wikipedia]