Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of central-western Argentina from analysis of Late-Pleistocene mammal droppings
Plant macrofossils studied in coprolites from small-sized, medium-sized and large mammals, dated by 14C to ca. 30.8-24 and 9kybp, allowed to record changes in local vegetation and its relation with geomorphological units. Paleobotanical samples were determined using microhistological analysis. We fo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/2783 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/2783 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Microhistologia Paleobotanica Dietas Pleistoceno Tardio Ancient Mammal Argentina Fecal Pellets Paleoecology Pleistocene https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | Plant macrofossils studied in coprolites from small-sized, medium-sized and large mammals, dated by 14C to ca. 30.8-24 and 9kybp, allowed to record changes in local vegetation and its relation with geomorphological units. Paleobotanical samples were determined using microhistological analysis. We found that plant associations and the vegetation-geomorphology relation were similar in the two periods analyzed. According to this study, the Monte plant formation would reflect certain stability during the analyzed period in arid central-western Argentina, although this does not imply the absence of variations in plant structure. |
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