Palaeolama major Liais, 1872

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Palaeolama maior Liais, 1872; Paleolama maior [orth. error used by (Leles et al., 2018)]

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Brazil

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Auler A.S., Piló L.B., Smart P.L., Wang X., Hoffmann D., Richards D.A., Edwards R.L., Neves W.A., Cheng H. 2006 U-series dating and taphonomy of Quaternary vertebrates from Brazilian caves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240(3-4): 508-522.

Dantas, Mário A. T. (2022). Estimating the body mass of the Late Pleistocene megafauna from the South America Intertropical Region and a new regression to estimate the body mass of extinct xenarthrans. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103900

Faure M., Guérin C., Parenti F. 1999 Découverte d'une mégafaune holocène à la Toca do Serrote do Artur (aire archéologique de São Raimundo Nonato, Piauî, Brésil) [The Holocene megafauna from the Toca do Serrote do Artur (São Raimundo Nonato archaeological area, Piauí, Brazil)]: A gruta do Serrote do Artur (área arqueológica de São Raimundo Nonato, Piaúi, Brasil): dataçoes holocênicas para megafáuna de mamíferos. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 329(6), 443-448.

Leles, Daniela et al. (2018). Methodological innovations for the study of irreplaceable samples reveal giardiasis in extinct animals ([i]Nothrotherium maquinense[/i] and [i]Palaeolama maior[/i]). Parasitology International 67(6): 776-780. [Abstract]

Nascimento, Johnson Sarmentode Oliveira et al. (In Press, 2019). Taxonomy and paleoenvironmental inferences from fossil vertebrates of Paripiranga Borboletas Cave, Northeastern Bahia, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102491 [Abstract]

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Pansani, Thaís Rabito et al. (2019). Isotopic paleoecology (δ13C, δ18O) of Late Quaternary megafauna from Mato Grosso do Sul and Bahia States, Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews 221: 105864. [Abstract]

Rocha-dos-Santos, Bruno Cesar de Almeida et al. (In Press, 2017). The fossil Camelidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla) from the Gruta do Urso cave, northern Brazil. Quaternary International. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.025 [Abstract]

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da Silva, Juliana de Almeida et al. (2019). Late Pleistocene meso-megamammals from Anagé, Bahia, Brazil: Taxonomy and isotopic paleoecology (δ13C). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 96: 102362. [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.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.

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