Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America

Bustos, David; Jakeway, Jackson; Urban, Tommy; T. Holliday, Vance; Fenerty, Brendan; A. Raichlen, David; Budka, Marcin; C. Reynolds, Sally; D. Allen, Bruce; W. Love, David; Santucci, Vincent; Odess, Daniel; Willey, P.; Gregory McDonald, H.; R. Bennett, Matthew

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aar7621

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Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America

Published in Science Advances • Apr 6, 2018

Authors:

David Bustos

Jackson Jakeway

Tommy Urban

Abstract

Predator-prey interactions revealed by vertebrate trace fossils are extremely rare. We present footprint evidence from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico for the association of sloth and human trackways. Geologically, the sloth and human trackways were made contemporaneously, and the sloth ...

Subject

Sloth

Pleistocene

Trace fossil

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