Publication Date:
2014-12-31
Description:
Existing radiocarbon (14C) dates on American mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils from eastern Beringia (Alaska and Yukon) have been interpreted as evidence they inhabited the Arctic and Subarctic during Pleistocene full-glacial times (∼18,000 14C years B.P.). However, this chronology is inconsistent with inferred habitat preferences of mastodons and correlative paleoecological evidence....
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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