Lama gracilis Gervais & Ameghino, 1881

Gracile llama

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Hemiauchenia gracilis Gervais and Ameghino, 1881

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

South America

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

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Guerin, C., Faure, M., 1999. Palaeolama (Hemiauchenia) niedae nov. sp., Noveau camelidae du nordeste Bre´ silien et sa place parmi les Lamini d’Amerique du Sud. Geobios 32: 629-659.

Marín-Leyva, Alejandro Hiram et al. (2022). Environmental inferences based on the dietary ecology of camelids from west-central Mexico during the Late Pleistocene. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2073822

A. N. Menegaz, F. J. Goin, and E. Ortiz Jaureguizar. (1989). Análisis morfológico y morfométrico multivariado de los representantes fósiles y vivientes del género Lama (Artiodactyla, Camelidae). Sus implicancias sistemáticas, biogeográficas, ecológicas y biocronológicas. Ameghiniana 26(3-4): 153-172.

Miotti, L., Salemme, M.C., 2003. When Patagonia was colonized: people mobility at high latitudes during Pleistocene/Holocene transition. Quaternary International 109-110: 95-111.

Paunero, R.S., Cueto, M., Frank, A., Ghidini, G., Rosales, G., Skarbun, F., 2004. Comunicacio´n sobre campan˜a arqueolo´ gica 2002 en localidad La Marı´a, Santa Cruz. In: Civalero, M.T., Fernandez, P.M., Guraich, A.G. (Eds.), Contra viento y marea: arqueologı´a de Patagonia. Instituto Nacional de Antropologia, Buenos Aires, pp. 797-808.

Prates, Luciano and Perez, S. Ivan. (2021). Late Pleistocene South American megafaunal extinctions associated with rise of Fishtail points and human population. Nature Communications 12: 2175.

Ramirez Rozzi, F.V., d’Errico, F., Zarate, M., 2000. Le site pale´ o-indien de Piedra Museo (Patagonie). Sa contribution au de´bat sue le premier peuplement du continent ame´ ricain. C.R. Acad. Sci. de la Terre et des planets 331, 311-318.

Tauber, A.A., 1999. Hallazgo de una vicun˜a en el Pleistoceno de la provincia de Co´ rdoba, Repu´ blica Argentina. Ameghiniana 36: 55-62.

Weinstock, Jaco et al. (2009). The Late Pleistocene distribution of vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) and the ‘‘extinction’’ of the gracile llama (‘‘Lama gracilis’’): New molecular data. Quaternary Science Reviews 28(15-16): 1369-1373.

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