Small mammal remains from Cueva Huenul 1, northern Patagonia, Argentina: Taphonomy and paleoenvironments since the Late Pleistocene

Fernández, Fernando Julián; Teta, Pablo; Barberena, Ramiro; Pardiñas, Ulyses F.J.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.01.005

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“…The taphonomic data for the microfauna is to some extent consistent with palaeontological studies conducted on barn owl pellets found elsewhere (Andrews 1990;Fernández et al 2012;Kusmer 1990). Microfauna in both the natural and archaeological TBL assemblages showed consistent patterns of owl predation.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Using taxonomic composition, skeletal element representation, bone breakage patterns, and bone modifications, it moves beyond the focus by microvertebrate taphonomic studies on small rodents (e.g., Fernández et al 2012), to extend the analysis to taxa commonly found in ISEA vertebrate assemblages (bats, birds, amphibians, snakes, and lizards).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, difficulties in recognizing and excluding natural processes in microfaunal accumulations in cave and rockshelter archaeological sites are well documented, particularly through taphonomic studies from other parts of the world (e.g., Fernández et al 2012;Nel and Henshilwood 2016). Nevertheless, very few such studies have been conducted in the faunally depauperate Wallacean islands.…”

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Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia

Hawkins

Carro

Louys

et al. 2017

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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We report on tetrapod (Reptilia, Amphibia, Mammalia, Aves) Fellows Road, Coombs Building, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia.E-mail: stuart.hawkins@anu.edu.au Color versions of one or more of the figures in the article can be found online at http://www.tandfonline.com/uica. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia

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Louys

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“…Sequences of small mammals have been the focus of several studies during the last decade in the area. Most of these contributions were centered on taphonomic, paleoenvironmental, and biogeographic features of these assemblages (Teta et al, 2005(Teta et al, , 2009Pardiñas and Teta, 2008;Fern andez et al, 2011Fern andez et al, , 2012among others).…”

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Paleoparasitological study of rodent coprolites from “Los Altares” paleontological site, Patagonia, Argentina

Beltrame

Fugassa

Sauthier

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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“…Fossil small mammals have been used as a useful tool in paleoenvironmental reconstruction around the world (e.g., Andrews 1990, Avery 1997, Cuenca Besc ó s et al 2005, Fern á ndez et al 2012. Among these mammals, the rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae are today the most diverse group in South America, having a rich Quaternary fossil record (Pardi ñ as et al 2002, Ortiz et al 2011a.…”

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The Quaternary record of Reithrodon auritus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in northwestern Argentina and its paleoenvironmental meaning

Ortíz

Jayat

2012

Mammalia

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Abstract:Reithrodon auritus is a living sigmodontine with one of the broader temporal records, from the lower Pliocene of Argentina. Its populations in northwestern Argentina are today found patchily and restricted to five high-elevation and isolated localities in open areas of highland grasslands vegetation (at > 3000 m). During the Pleistocene and early Holocene, R. auritus would have had a broader range, reaching lower altitudes everywhere and being one of the dominant small mammal species in some fossil localities. In this note, we summarize the known Pleistocene and early Holocene fossil record of R. auritus in northwestern Argentina, provide new paleontological sites for the species, and make comments concerning the paleoenvironmental implications of its presence at such lower altitudes. The paleontological evidence indicates that during the Pleistocene and early Holocene, R. auritus inhabited around 1000 m below their current altitudinal distribution in the eastern Andean ranges, with populations clearly more abundant than today. The fossils of R. auritus are indicative of colder and perhaps more xeric paleoenvironmental conditions, characterized by open areas with sparse grassy vegetation as those developed today around 3000 m elevation.

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Small mammal remains from Cueva Huenul 1, northern Patagonia, Argentina: Taphonomy and paleoenvironments since the Late Pleistocene

Cited by 46 publications

References 25 publications

Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia

Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia

Paleoparasitological study of rodent coprolites from “Los Altares” paleontological site, Patagonia, Argentina

The Quaternary record of Reithrodon auritus (Rodentia: Cricetidae) in northwestern Argentina and its paleoenvironmental meaning

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