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Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Stegomastodon platensis Ameghino, 1888; Niomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Early Holocene (Mothé et al., 2017)

 

Distribution

"South America (from lowlands to highlands and from east to west coasts)" (Mothé et al. 2017)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Ameghino F., 1888, Rápidas diagnosis de algunos mamíferos fósiles nuevos de la República Argentina: Buenos Aires, Editorial Coni, 17 pp.

 

Other references:

Alberdi, M. T. , Cerdeño, E., and Prado, J. L. (2008). Stegomastodon platensis (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) en el Pleistoceno de Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Ameghiniana 45: 257-271.

Alberdi, María T. and Prado, José L. (2022). Diversity of the fossil gomphotheres from South America. Historical Biology 34(8): 1685-1691. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2067754

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Baleka, Sina et al. (2021). Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA. iScience 25: 103559.

Barbosa, Fernando Henrique de Souza, de Araújo-Júnior, Hermínio Ismael, Mothé, Dimila and Avilla, Leonardo dos Santos. (In Press, 2016). Osteological diseases in an extinct Notiomastodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea) population from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil. Quaternary International. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.019 [Abstract]

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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]

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Dantas, Mário André Trindade et al. (2020). Isotopic paleoecology (δ13C) from mammals from IUIU/BA and paleoenvironmental reconstruction (δ13C, δ18O) for the Brazilian intertropical region through the late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 242: 106469. [Abstract]

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Fonseca De Paiva, Ana Clara, Alves-Silva, Laís and De Souza Barbosa, Fernando Henrique. (2024). Characterization of dental calculus in the South American Quaternary proboscidean Notiomastodon platensis (Ameghino, 1888). Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3602

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