The temporal and spatial coarseness of megafaunal fossil records complicates attempts to to
disentangle the relative impacts of climate change, ecosystem restructuring, and human …

Prehistoric and recent extinctions of large-bodied terrestrial herbivores had significant and
lasting impacts on Earth's ecosystems due to the loss of their distinct trait combinations. The …

Pleistocene fluvial sequences have been recognised in some regions of México as an
important source of information on past environmental change using a wide range of …

Mesowear is a dietary proxy that relates attritive wear and abrasive wear to the shape of
worn tooth cusps of ungulates. Traditional mesowear methods categorize cusps according …

Abstract The Rancho La Brea locality is world famous for asphaltic deposits that trapped and
preserved late Pleistocene megafauna over the last 50,000 years. This wealth of …

We describe a set of dental and postcranial horse material recovered from the locality Los
Hornitos, northeastern Sonora, northwestern Mexico. The fossil-bearing unit consists of …

Camelidae is one of the most diverse and successful artiodactyl families, with a long
geological history and wide geographical range in North America. Camelops hesternus was …

Eremotherium laurillardiwas a common giant ground sloth in the Late Pleistocene of the
Americas. A right femur referable to this species was recovered from fluvial sediments in …

The Valsequillo paleontological area in Puebla has been widely explored and several fossil
localities are studied with the presence of megafaunal and micromammal remains. It has …

The “associational critique” holds that there are too few archaeological kill/scavenging sites
to support the hypothesis that human hunting caused the late Pleistocene extinction of 38 …