Earth:Lujanian
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Short description: Period of geologic time (0.8–0.011 Ma or 800–11 tya) within the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs
The Lujanian age is a South American land mammal age within the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs of the Neogene, from 0.8–0.011 Ma or 800–11 tya. It follows the Ensenadan.[1] The age is usually divided into the middle Pleistocene Bonaerian stage, which ends at about 130,000 years, and the Lujanian, which lasts from about 130,000 years into the early Holocene.[2] The latter Lujanian stage overlaps chronologically with the North American Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean.
Fauna include ground sloths, litopterns, short-faced bears, South American horse Amerhippus and cingulates such as glyptodonts and the armadillo-like Pachyarmatherium.
References
- ↑ Paleo Database: Lujanian
- ↑ Cione, A. L.; Tonni, E. P.; Soibelzon, L. (2003). "The Broken Zig-Zag: Late Cenozoic large mammal and tortoise extinction in South America". Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat.. New Series 5 (1): 1–19. doi:10.22179/REVMACN.5.26. ISSN 1514-5158. http://www.ege.fcen.uba.ar/materias/general/Broken_ZigZagMACN_5_1_19_.pdf. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
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