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Pleistocene Mammals of North America

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The article was published on 1980-10-15 and is currently open access. It has received 907 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Platygonus & Homotherium.

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Feeding ecology of the gomphotheres (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) of America

TL;DR: It is suggested that American gomphotheres displayed generalist feeding habits, allowing them to inhabit different environments in extensive areas of the continents, and survive to the end of the Pleistocene.

The impact of changing grasslands on Late Quaternary bison of the

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of metapodials from well-dated Southern Plains localities depict a rapid decrease in body size in the early Holocene with modern size present by 6500 BP.
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The megaherbivore syndrome: alternative life style or different time frame?

TL;DR: Though limited in species, megaherbivores comprise nearly half of the total biomass of large herbivores, and are supreme generalists in their tolerant feeding habits and wide geographic distribution, they exert a major impact on the structure and composition of vegetation.

Pleistocene Peccaries from Guy Wilson Cave, Sullivan County, Tennessee.

TL;DR: Pleistocene Peccaries from the Guy Wilson Cave, Sullivan County, Tennessee as mentioned in this paper, were found in the early Pleistocene stage of the last Ice Age, approximately 65,000 years ago.