Morenelaphus lujanensis (Ameghino, 1888)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene or Holocene

Distribution

Uruguay

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Alcaraz, María Alejandra. (2010). Sistemática de los cérvidos (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) del Pleistoceno de las áreas extraandinas de Argentina. Thesis. [Abstract]

Pêgo, Frederico Bonissoni. (2014). Revisão taxonômica de Morenelaphus Carette, 1922 (Cetartiodactyla, Cervidae): uma abordagem morfológica dentária. Dissertation. 74 pp.

Rotti, Alline et al. (In Press, 2018). Diet reconstruction for an extinct deer (Cervidae: Cetartiodactyla) from the Quaternary of South America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.026 [Abstract]

Smith F.A., Lyons S.K., Ernest S.K.M., Jones K.E., Kaufman D.M., Dayan T., Marquet P.A., Brown J.H., Haskell J.P. 2003 Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84(12): 3403-3403.

Ubilla M., Perea D., Goso Aguilar C., Lorenzo N. (2004). Late Pleistocene vertebrates from northern Uruguay: tools for biostratigraphic, climatic and environmental reconstruction. Quaternary International 114(1): 129-142.

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