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    The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw numerous extinctions of predominantly megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over...
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    chronologies of the extinctions. In general, various reasons have been stated to have caused the extinctions during the Late Pleistocene but the topic is...
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    Megatherium (category Pleistocene xenarthrans)
    as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, simultaneously with the majority of other large mammals in the Americas. The extinctions followed the first...
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    Megafaunal wolf Megaflora Megaherb New World Pleistocene extinctions Pleistocene megafauna Quaternary extinction event Nonavian dinosaur size was not similarly...
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    lived during the Late Pleistocene. The grey wolf is one of the few large carnivores to survive the Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions, but similar to...
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    Some consider the extinction to be as many as seven distinct events, spread over about 25 million years, with notable extinctions at the ends of the...
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    Glyptodont (category Pleistocene xenarthrans)
    approximately 12,000 years ago at the end of the Late Pleistocene, as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, along with most other large animals in the...
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    Megalonyx (category Pleistocene xenarthrans)
    jeffersonii was described later, named in honor of him. Megalonyx became extinct as part of Late Pleistocene extinctions, simultaneously with all other...
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    Steadman, D. W. (1999-06-30). "Prehistoric extinctions on islands and continents". In MacPhee, R. D. E (ed.). Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts and consequences...
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    Smilodon (category Pleistocene genus extinctions)
    of Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction" (PDF). In Haynes, Gary (ed.). American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene. Vertebrate...
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    Ground sloth (category Pleistocene xenarthrans)
    extinct on the American mainland as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene, around 12,000 years ago simultaneously along...
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    the late Pleistocene extinctions resulted in a change of body shape as the species adapted for increased power rather than speed. The extinctions hardly...
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    layer of the Arctic and Subarctic. Most went extinct during the Late Pleistocene extinctions while some are still extant today. They have been listed too...
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    severity, the Late Ordovician mass extinction did not produce major changes to ecosystem structures compared to other mass extinctions, nor did it lead...
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    Dire wolf (category Pleistocene carnivorans)
    (1989). "The Late Pleistocene extinction event as a paradigm for widespread mammal extinction". In Donovan, Stephen K. (ed.). Mass Extinctions: Processes...
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    Mastodon (category Pleistocene extinctions)
    largest animals (megafauna), as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions around the end of the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene, the causes typically being...
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    Arctodus (category Pleistocene extinctions)
    the Pleistocene. A. pristinus went extinct around 300,000 years ago, with A. simus disappearing ~12,800 years ago in the Late Pleistocene extinctions. The...
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    Panthera leo fossilis Diedrich, C. G. (2014). "Palaeopopulations of Late Pleistocene Top Predators in Europe: Ice Age Spotted Hyenas and Steppe Lions in...
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    Columbian mammoth (category Pleistocene proboscideans)
    years ago, with the species becoming extinct as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, simultaneously with most other large (megafaunal) mammals present...
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    subspecies of coyote that lived in western North America during the Late Pleistocene era. Most remains of the subspecies were found in southern California...
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  • though it still exists elsewhere. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinctions. Local extinctions mark a change in the ecology of an area...
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    Glyptodon (category Pleistocene xenarthrans)
    glyptodonts, became extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12,000 as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, along with most large mammals in the...
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    Castoroides (category Pleistocene genus extinctions)
    during as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition, alongside most other North American Pleistocene megafauna, such as...
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    megafaunal extinctions, especially at the end of the Pleistocene. Over the course of the Late Holocene, there were hundreds of extinctions of birds on...
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    L.; Shabel, Alan B. (October 2004). "Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents". Science. 306 (5693): 70–75. Bibcode:2004Sci...
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    Thylacoleo (category Pleistocene genus extinctions)
    carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around 40,000 years ago), often known as marsupial...
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    Cap Late D O–S Partial list from Image:Extinction Intensity.png Bond, David P. G.; Grasby, Stephen E. (2017-07-15). "On the causes of mass extinctions"....
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    isotopes reveal role of increased moisture on rangeland during late Pleistocene extinctions". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (5): 0125. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0125...
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    extinctions do not fit with the idea that mass extinctions are periodic, or that ecosystems gradually build up to a point at which a mass extinction is...
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    beginning of the Late Pleistocene. Proboscideans underwent a dramatic decline during the Late Pleistocene as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions of most large...
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