New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna: Continent-Wide Extinction About 46,000 Years Ago
- R. Roberts, T. Flannery, Barton L Smith
- Environmental Science, GeographyScience
- 8 June 2001
This work reports burial ages for megafauna from 28 sites and infer extinction across the continent around 46,400 years ago, ruling out extreme aridity at the Last Glacial Maximum as the cause of extinction, but not other climatic impacts; a "blitzkrieg" model of human-induced extinction; or an extended period of anthropogenic ecosystem disruption.
An Australian land mammal age biochronological scheme
- D. Megirian, G. Prideaux, P. Murray, N. Smit
- Environmental Science, GeographyPaleobiology
- 9 September 2010
Abstract Constrained seriation of a species-locality matrix of the Australian Cenozoic mammal record resolves a preliminary sixfold succession of land mammal ages apparently spanning the late…
Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos
- G. Prideaux
- Environmental Science
- 3 March 2003
Compelling evidence suggests a paraphyletic origin for the Sthenurinae from within the late Oligocene to middle Miocene subfamily Bulungamayinae, and a new tribe (Simosthenurini) is raised to include the three short-faced genera: Archaeosimos gen. nov., Simosthenurus and Procoptodon.
An osteology‐based appraisal of the phylogeny and evolution of kangaroos and wallabies (Macropodidae: Marsupialia)
- G. Prideaux, N. Warburton
- Biology
- 1 August 2010
Osteological analysis revealed strong support for a plesiomorphic clade (Lagostrophinae subfam. nov.) containing Lagostrophus and Troposodon, which is likely to have originated in the early Miocene, likely to represent varying responses to the spread of drier, open habitats following the Miocene Climatic Optimum.
Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia
- G. Prideaux, G. Gully, L. Hatcher
- Environmental Science, GeographyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2 December 2010
An exceptional faunal succession from Tight Entrance Cave, southwestern Australia is reported, which shows persistence of a diverse mammal community for at least 100 ka leading up to the earliest regional evidence of humans at 49 ka.
An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia
- G. Prideaux, J. Long, N. Warburton
- Environmental Science, GeographyNature
- 25 January 2007
A diverse and exceptionally well preserved middle Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage from caves beneath the arid, treeless Nullarbor plain of south-central Australia, which implies substantially greater floristic diversity than that of the modern shrub steppe.
Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia
- G. Hamm, P. Mitchell, Duncan Johnston
- Geography, Environmental ScienceNature
- 10 November 2016
Evidence from Warratyi rock shelter in the southern interior of Australia shows that humans occupied arid Australia by around 49 ka, 10 thousand years earlier than previously reported, and developed key technologies muchEarlier than previously recorded for Australia and Southeast Asia.
The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points
- W. Laurance, B. Dell, C.o Cocklin
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 2011
Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia
- F. Saltré, M. Rodríguez-Rey, C. Bradshaw
- Environmental Science, GeographyNature Communications
- 29 January 2016
This is the first comprehensive approach to incorporate uncertainty in fossil ages, extinction timing and climatology, to quantify mechanisms of prehistorical extinctions of megafaunal extinctions in the world's most controversial context.
Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo
- G. Prideaux, L. Ayliffe, T. Cerling
- Environmental Science, GeographyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 14 July 2009
Craniodental morphology, stable-isotopic, and dental microwear data are combined to reveal that the largest-ever kangaroo, Procoptodon goliah, was a chenopod browse specialist, which may have had a preference for Atriplex (saltbushes), one of a few dicots using the C4 photosynthetic pathway.
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