Abstract The Late Pleistocene-early Holocene faunal turnover in South America was
characterized by the extinction of all mammals with body mass> 300 kg and several smaller …

During the latest Pleistocene-earliest Holocene, South American terrestrial vertebrate
faunas suffered one of the largest (and probably the youngest) extinction in the world for this …

Here I consider the evidence for the interactions of humans and South American late
Pleistocene megafauna, a subject not usually covered in much detail in general …

Touro Passo Creek is one of the most important fossiliferous late Pleistocene localities from
southern Brazil. Although fossil vertebrates collected from this locality have been studied …

La escala de tiempo local sudamericana del Cenozoico continental está basada en la
secuencia estratigráfica portadora de abundantes mamíferos que aflora en la parte austral …

This paper deals mainly with the paleobiogeography of the South American Pampatheriidae
of the late Pleistocene. Through analysis, we conclude that (1) the species of Quaternary …

Sloths represent one of the most successful South American clades that reached North
America during the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI). At least four families are …

Stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O) in teeth of extinct mammals have been used as indicators of
diets and climate conditions, which in turn are used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions …

The Glyptodontidae is one of the most conspicuous groups in the Pleistocene megafauna of
the Americas. The Glyptodontinae were involved in the Great American Biotic Interchange …

The Pampa in subtropical Brazil (State of Rio Grande do Sul) is the only area of South
America known so far where fossils of the Pleistocene giant megatheriid sloths Megatherium …