The Timing of Late Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America
- 20 January 1983
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Quaternary Research
- Vol. 19 (1) , 130-135
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(83)90032-7
Abstract
More than 375 14C dates from 150 fossil sites in North America have been analyzed to evaluate the question of extinction of Late Pleistocene megafauna. When critically evaluated, no 14C ages for any extinct Pleistocene genera are younger than 10,000 yr B.P.Keywords
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