Paleoecology and radiocarbon dating of the Pleistocene megafauna of the Brazilian Intertropical Region

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-65

  Dantas, Mário André Trindade ^a   Dutra, Rodrigo Parisi ^a   Cherkinsky, Alexander ^b   Fortier, Daniel Costa ^a   Kamino, Luciana Hiromi Yoshino ^a   Cozzuol, Mario Alberto ^a   Ribeiro, Adauto de Souza ^c   Vieira, Fabiana Silva ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

AMS; Brazilian Intertropical Region; Carbon isotopes; Megafauna

Indexed keywords

AMS; BRAZILIAN INTERTROPICAL REGION; CARBON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CARBON ISOTOPES; INFORMATION CONCERNING; MEGAFAUNA; OPEN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PLATENSIS; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CARBON; ISOTOPES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BIOMASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; FAUNA; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; TROPICAL REGION;

BRAZIL;

MAMMALIA; TOXODON PLATENSIS;

EID: 84871518853     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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