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Xenorhinotherium bahiense Cartelle & Lessa, 1988

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene-Holocene

 

Distribution

Brazil

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Cartelle, C., Lessa, G., 1988, Descrição de um novo gênero e espécie de Macraucheniidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) do Pleistoceno do Brasil: Paula Coutiana 3, 3-26.

 

Other references:

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

G. Lessa, C. Cartelle, H. Farias and P. R. Gonçalves. 1998. Novos achados de mamiferos carnivoros do Pleistoceno final-Holoceno em grutas calcarias do Estado da Bahia. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 21(46/47):157-169

Lobo, Leonardo Souza, Lessa, Gisele, Cartelle, Cástor and Romano, Redro S. R. (2017). Dental eruption sequence and hypsodonty index of a Pleistocene macraucheniid from the Brazilian Intertropical Region. Journal of Paleontology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.54 [Abstract]

de Oliveira, Karoliny et al. (2020). Fantastic beasts and what they ate: Revealing feeding habits and ecological niche of late Quaternary Macraucheniidae from South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 231: 106178. [Abstract]

Omena, Érica Cavalcante et al. (2020). Late Pleistocene meso-megaherbivores from Brazilian Intertropical Region: isotopic diet (δ13C), niche differentiation, guilds and paleoenvironmental reconstruction (δ13C, δ18O). Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1789977

K. O. Porpino, M. F. Santos, and L. P. Bergqvist. 2004. Registros de mamíferos fósseis no Lajedo de Soledade, Apodi, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 7(3): 349-358

Ribeiro R.d.C., Kinoshita A., Figueiredo A.M.G., Carvalho I.d.S., Baffa O. (2012). Electron Spin Resonance dating of the Late Quaternary megafauna fossils from Baixa Grande, Bahia, Brazil. Quaternary International.

Scherer C.S., Pitana V.G., Ribeiro A.M. 2009 Proterotheriidae and Macraucheniidae (Liptoterna, Mammalia) from the Pleistocene of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(3): 231-246.

Welker, Frido et al. (2015). Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates. Nature 522: 81-84.

Wilson L.A.B., Sánchez-Villagra M.R., Madden R.H., Kay R.F. 2012 Testing a developmental model in the fossil record: molar proportions in South American ungulates. Paleobiology 38(2), 308-321.

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