Светлый фон
Sivatherium

Graham R. W., Belmecheri S., Choy K., Culleton B. J., Davies L. J., Froese D., Heintzman P. D., Hritz C., Kapp J. D., Newsom L. A., Rawcliffe R., Saulnier-Talbot É., Shapiro B., Wang Yu., Williams J. W. et Wooller M. J. Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2016, V.113, № 33, pp.9310–9314.

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Palaeoloxodon

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Owen-Smith N. Pleistocene extinctions: the pivotal role of megaherbivores // Paleobiology, 1987, V.13, pp.351–362. Роль вымирания крупных растительноядных в изменении ландшафтов.

Plicht van der J., Molodin V. I., Kuzmin Ya.V., Vasiliev S. K., Postnov A. V. et Slavinsky V. S. New Holocene refugia of giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus Blum.) in Siberia: updated extinction patterns // Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015, V.114, pp.182–188.

Megaloceros giganteus

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Mammuthus primigenius

Stuart A. J., Kosintsev P. A., Higham T. F.G. et Lister A. M. Pleistocene to Holocene extinction dynamics in giant deer and woolly mammoth // Nature, 2004, V.431, pp.684–689.

White A. W., Worthy T. H., Hawkins S., Bedford S. et Spriggs M. Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010, V.107, № 35, pp.15512–15516. Черепаха Meiolania damelipi с острова Эфате.

Meiolania damelipi

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