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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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VERTEBRATE RECORDS | Late Pleistocene of North America

TL;DR: The Rancholabrean Land Mammal Age (RLB) as mentioned in this paper is defined based on the occurrence of Bison and the first occurrence (arrival time) of bison is not well established and is still debated.
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Between hard rock and open space: Constraints and freedom of Finnish paleontology

TL;DR: Palaeontology is the science which treats of the life that has existed on the globe during former geological periods as mentioned in this paper, which deals with all questions concerning the properties, classification, relationships, descent, conditions of existence, and the distribution in space and time of the ancient inhabitants of the earth, as well as those theories of organic and cosmogonic evolution which result from such inquiries.
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Synthesis and assessment of the flat-headed peccary record in North America

TL;DR: Using the Gaussian-resampled inverse-weighted McInerny method (GRIWM) to analyze the distribution of direct radiocarbon ages, this article found that final extinction likely occurred during the Younger Dryas, between ∼12,500 and 12,000 B.P.
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Revisión estratigráfica y edad de la Formación (Aloformación) Mayrán en el área de Parras, Coahuila, México

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the stratigraphy of the Mayran Formation and propose to redefine it as an alloformation, which is defined as the lower part consisting of interbedded limestone and sandstone, and the upper succession is tufa and shaly limestone.