Megafauna extinction in South America: A new chronology for the Argentine Pampas

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 425, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-49

  Prado, José L ^a   Martinez Maza, Cayetana ^b   Alberdi, María T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Late Pleistocene; Megafauna extinction; Pampas; Radiocarbon date; South America

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; HOLOCENE; MAMMAL; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; TAXONOMY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

LITOPTERNA; NOTOUNGULATA;

EID: 84924098719     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.026     Document Type: Article

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