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Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-Paleontological Site: Osorno, Northwestern Patagonia and Chile

Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-Paleontological Site: Osorno, Northwestern Patagonia and Chile

Hardcover

Series: Latin American Studies Book

ArchaeologyGeologyPaleontology

ISBN10: 3030239179
ISBN13: 9783030239176
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 8 2019
Pages: 343
Weight: 1.48
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Chapter 1. Pilauco and Los Notros Sites Research: a Narration of Human and Scientific Events.- Chapter 2. From Gondwana to the Great American Biotic Interchange: The birth of South American Fauna.- Chapter 3. Geology, stratigraphy, and chronology of the Pilauco site.- Chapter 4. The proboscidean gomphotheres (Mammalia, Gomphotheriidae) from southernmost South America.- Chapter 5. The camelids (Artiodactyla: Camelidae) and equids (Perissodactyla: Equidae) from the Pilauco site, northwestern Chilean Patagonia.- Chapter 6. Sporormiella fungal spores as a proxy for megaherbivore abundance and decline at Pilauco.- Chapter 7. Micromammals (Mammal: Rodentia) from Pilauco: identification and environmental considerations.- Chapter 8. Taphonomy of the Pilauco Site, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia.- Chapter 9. Vegetation-climate-megafauna interactions during the Lateglacial in Pilauco site, northwestern Patagonia.- Chapter 10. Diatoms: Microalgae from Pilauco.- Chapter 11. Phytolith analysis from coprolites of Pilauco.- Chapter 12. Fossil Coleoptera from the Pilauco site: an approach to late Pleistocene microenvironments.- Chapter 13. Coprolites as proxies for paleoparasitology at Pilauco.- Chapter 14. The site Los Notros: geology and first taxonomic descriptions.- Chapter 15. Evidence from Pilauco suggests a catastrophic cosmic impact occurred near the site 12,800 years ago.- Chapter 16. The cultural materials from Pilauco and Los Notros sites.- Chapter 17. Planning and managing a palaeontological tourism destination: the case of Pilauco, Osorno, Chile.- Chapter 18. The Pilauco and los Notros sites: A final discussion.

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