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Equus neogaeus Lund, 1840 (1841?)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Equus neogeus Lund, 1840 (1841?)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct if valid

Last record: Late Pleistocene (Holocene?)

 

Distribution

Locality: Argentina & Brazil

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Lund, P. W. (1841). Tillaeg til de to Sidste Afhandlinger over Brasiliens Dyreverden för Sidste Jordomvaeltning: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, 8, 273-296.

 

Other references:

Araújo, Thaísa et al. (2021). Species distribution modeling reveals the ecological niche of extinct megafauna from South America. Quaternary Research. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.24 [Abstract]

Avilla, Leonardo Santos et al. (2018). Pleistocene Equus (Equidae: Mammalia) from northern Brazil: evidence of scavenger behavior by ursids on South American horses. Ameghiniana 55(5): 517-530.

Borrero LA, Zárate M, Miotti L, and Massone M (1998) The Pleistocene-Holocene transition and human occupations in the Southern C one of South America. Quaternary International 49/50, 191–199.

Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge D. et al. (2023). Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142: 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00273-7

Cirilli, Omar, Machado, H., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Barrón-Ortiz, C. I., Davis, E., Jass, C. N., Jukar, A. M., Landry, Z., Marín-Leyva, A. H., Pandolfi, L., Pushkina, D., Rook, L., Saarinen, J., Scott, E., Semprebon, G., Strani, F., Villavicencio, N. A., Kaya, F. and Bernor, R. L. (2022). Evolution of the Family Equidae, Subfamily Equinae, in North, Central and South America, Eurasia and Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene. Biology 11(9): 1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11091258

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

Dantas, Mário André Trindade, Cherkinsky, Alexander, Bocherens, Hervé, Drefahl, Morgana, Bernardes, Camila and França, Lucas de Melo. (2017). Isotopic paleoecology of the Pleistocene megamammals from the Brazilian Intertropical Region: Feeding ecology (δ13C), niche breadth and overlap. Quaternary Science Reviews 170: 152-163. [Abstract]

Faure M, Guérin C, and Parenti F (1999) The Holocene megafauna from the Toca do Serrote do Artur (São Raimundo Nonato archaeological area, Piauí, Brazil). Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, Série II, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329, 443–448.

Kerber, Leonardo, Pitana, Vanessa Gregis, Ribeiro, Ana Maria, Hsiou, Annie Schmaltz and Oliveira, Edison V. (2014). Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Touro Passo Creek (Touro Passo Formation), southern Brazil: a review. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 31(2): 248-259.

Lopes, Renato Pereira et al. (2021). The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Geology 51(1): e2020065.

Morosi, Elizabeth and Ubilla, Martin. (2019). Feeding and environmental studies on late Pleistocene horses in mid-latitudes of South America (northern Uruguay). Quaternary Science Reviews 225: 106025. [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

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]

Prado, J.L.; Alberdi, M.T.; Bellinzoni, J. (2021). Pleistocene Mammals from Pampean Region (Argentina). Biostratigraphic, Biogeographic, and Environmental Implications. Quaternary 4: 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4020015

Prado, José L.; Alberdi, María T.; Bonini, Ricardo; Crispiani, Héctor. (2018). New records of Hippidion principale and Equus neogeus from Salado River (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 289(2): 123-138. [Abstract]

Prado, José L.; Bonini, Ricardo; Favier-Dubois, Cristian; Gómez, Gustavo N.; Steffan, Pamela; Alberdi, María T. (2019). Fossil horses from the Late Pleistocene of Tapalqué Creek (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 294(3): 285-305. [Abstract]

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.

Ribeiro, A.M., Scherer, C.S., 2009, Mamíferos do Pleistoceno do Rio Grande do Sul, in Ribeiro, A.M., Bauermann, S.G., Scherer, C.S. (eds.), Quaternário do Rio Grande do Sul – Integrando Conhecimentos: Monografias da Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia, Porto Alegre, 171-191.

Scherer, Carolina Saldanha, Pales, Letícia Francielle Moreira, da Silva, Mariane Rosa Thomaz and da Silva, Samara de Almeida. (In Press, 2017). Chronological, taphonomical, and paleoenvironmental aspects of a Late Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.07.016 [Abstract]

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.

Varela, Luciano, Clavijo, Lucía, Tambusso, P. Sebastián and Fariña, Richard A. (2023). A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay). Quaternary Science Reviews 317: 108286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108286

Villavicencio, Natalia A., Corcoran, Derek and Marquet, Pablo A. (2019). Assessing the Causes Behind the Late Quaternary Extinction of Horses in South America Using Species Distribution Models. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7: 226.

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