A skull of the extinct tayassuidBrasiliochoerus stenocephalus(Lund in Reinhardt, 1880) (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of southern Brazil: morphology and taxonomy

Fossiliferous sites of the southern coast of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil: geoheritage records of Quaternary sea-level, climate and environmental changes

“…8G-Q) include essentially the same Pleistocene mammals found on the continental shelf-concheiros, although some species from the latter have not been found so far in the SVA, and vice-versa. The species known only from the SVA include the peccary Brasilochoerus stenocephalus (Copetti et al 2021), the canids Protocyon troglodytes (Oliveira et al 2005) 2015), the rodent Holochilus brasiliensis (Kerber et al 2012), the ursid Arctotherium cf. wingei (Pereira et al 2012), the giant sloth Eremotherium laurillardi and the giant armadillo Pampatherium humboldti (Ferreira et al 2018), besides a stork Ciconia sp.…”

“…The Quaternary fossiliferous sites of the southern CPRS represent considerable periods of time and contain fossils that show significant climate-driven changes in environments and fauna, including shifts in the distribution of marine animals in response to changes in oceanographic conditions (Lopes et al 2013b;2021c;2022). The terrestrial fossil assemblages are composed of a mixture of species of tropical (Brazilian) and subtropical-temperate (Pampean) origin that can be explained by repeated latitudinal shifts of climatic zones, vegetation types and mammalian faunas (Oliveira et al 2005;Lopes 2013;Lopes et al 2021;. The changes in terrestrial plant communities, inferred from dietary patterns of herbivore mammals, may bear relationship with the local extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna (Lopes et al 2013a;2020c;.…”