First record of Bison antiquus from the Late Pleistocene of southern Mexico |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratorio de Paleobiología, Instituto de Recursos, Campus Puerto Escondido, Universidad del Mar, Km. 2.5 Carretera Puerto Escondido-Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca 71980, Mexico;2. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA;1. Laboratório de Mastozoologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur 458, Prédio de Ciências Biológicas, sala 501, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;2. Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade Neotropical, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Avenida Pasteur, 296, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;3. Laboratório de Paleontologia, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Ambientais e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Rua Rui Barbosa 710, Campus Universitário, Centro, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, 44.380-000, Brazil;1. Laboratorio de Paleontología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edif. R 2°, Piso. Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 58060, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico;2. Laboratorio de Arqueozoología “M. en C. Ticul Álvarez Solórzano”, Subdirección de laboratorio y Apoyo Académico, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Moneda #16, Col. Centro, 06060 D.F., Mexico;3. Instituto de Investigaciones Sobre los Recursos Naturales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico;1. División Paleontología Vertebrados, Unidades de Investigación Anexo Museo de La Plata, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 122 y 60, CP 1900 La Plata, Argentina;2. División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CONICET, Paseo del Bosque, CP 1900 La Plata, Argentina;3. Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Ambientais e Biológicas, Rua Rui Barbosa 710, Campus Universitário, Centro, Cruz das Almas, Bahia 44.380-000, Brazil;1. IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Campus Sescelades URV (Edifici W3), 43007 Tarragona, Spain;2. Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Avinguda de Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain;3. Laboratorio de Arqueozoología, Subdirección de Laboratorios y Apoyo Académico, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Moneda 16, Col. Centro, 06060 México D.F, Mexico;4. Licenciatura en Arqueología, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Calle Zapote s/n Col, Isidro Fabela, Tlalpan, México, D. F, Mexico;5. Seminari d''Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques (SERP), Universitat de Barcelona, Montealegre 2, 08001 Barcelona, Spain;6. Unidad Académica de Antropología, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Jardín Juárez #147, Col. Centro Histórico, 98000 Zacatecas, Zac., Mexico;1. Muséum Requien 67, Rue Joseph Vernet, 84 000, Avignon, France;2. UMR 5608 TRACES, Université Jean Jaurès, 31058, Toulouse Cedex 1, France;3. Aristotle University, School of Geology, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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| Abstract: | In Mexico, just 54% of the reported Pleistocene Bison material has been identified to species. Current paleontological research in northwestern Oaxaca, southern Mexico, has allowed collection of several specimens of Bison antiquus that are part of the Viko Vijin Local Fauna. B. antiquus had a very wide geographic distribution, from lowlands to mountainous landscapes of North and Central America. The B. antiquus record from southern Mexico links their former records from central Mexico and middle Central America and confirms this wide geographic distribution. The univariate mesowear score of the B. antiquus specimens from Oaxaca is in the lower extreme of grazers and the upper end of mixed-feeders, suggesting that they had a less abrasive diet than the modern plains Bison, as has been observed in other samples of this species from diverse parts of North America. The presence of B. antiquus in the Viko Vijin L. F. constrains the age of this fossil assemblage within a range from 60 Ka to 11.7 Ka. |
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