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Megafauna do Quaternário tardio de Baixa Grande, Bahia, Brasil

2009; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO; Volume: 32; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

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Ricardo da Costa Ribeiro, Ismar de Souza Carvalho,

Primate Behavior and Ecology

It is presented the first occurrence of the late Pleistocene - Holocene mammals fossils in a gnamma-like deposit in the Baixa Grande municipality, Bahia State. The identified taxa were Eremotherium laurillardi (Pilosa - Megatheriidae), Panochthus greslebini (Cingulata - Glyptodontidae), Toxodontinae (Notoungulata - Toxodontidae) and Stegomastodon waringi (Proboscidea - Gomphoteriidae). The inferred ecology for this fauna is related to a savanna/forest habitat, in a more wet climate than the present-day semi-arid climate.