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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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Gliding Mammals: Taxonomy of Living and Extinct Species

TL;DR: The flying squirrels of the tribe Pteromyini within the rodent family Sciuridae represent the greatest diversity of gliding mammals, with a total of 48 species in 15 genera currently recognized, and occur throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Microtus californicus (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

TL;DR: A sexually dimorphic, medium-sized vole, M. californicus is found in a wide range of habitats from arid uplands to wet meadows and salt marshes.
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In the eye of the cyclops: the classic case of cospeciation and why paradigms are important.

TL;DR: Re-examination of what has been dubbed the “classic case of cospeciation” shows that divergent views ofcospeciation are subsumed and reconciled within the larger explanatory framework of the Stockholm Paradigm.
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Latest Pleistocene paleoecology of Jefferson's ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) and elk-moose (Cervalces scotti) in northern Illinois

TL;DR: New records of Jefferson's ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersonii) and elk-moose (Cervalces scotti) from Lang Farm provide the first precise temporal correlation of these taxa with the specific environments inhabited by them near the time of their extinction.
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Fossils, diet, and conservation of black-footed ferrets (mustela nigripes)

TL;DR: It is suggested that the historically documented “obligate” predator–prey relationship between M. nigripes and Cynomys was a secondary effect of colonization by black-footed ferrets of CynomYS-dominated habitats sometime in the past 800,000 years.