A Last Glacial anuran assemblage from the inland Pampas of South America provides insights into climate and environments during Marine Isotope Stage 3
- Pérez Ben, Celeste Marina
- Turazzini, Guillermo Fidel
- Gómez, Raúl O.
DOIAbstract
Environmental and climatic conditions of the South American temperate grasslands (Pampas) during the Last Glacial Period have typically been regarded as mostly arid and cold, whereas humid and mild conditions such as those prevailing today may have been established only recently. This hypothesis has been built mostly upon fossil mammals that come from coastal areas and date from the end phase of this period and thus provide both temporally and geographically biased data. Other fossil vertebrates, including anurans, have been overlooked when addressing these conditions in spite of being potentially very informative due to their ecological requirements. Here, we analyze an anuran assemblage from the Last Glacial Period of the inland Pampas. I...
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