Late-Pleistocene environment in central-southern Mendoza (Argentina) from micro-, meso- and megafauna coprolites analyses

MARTÍNEZ CARRETERO, EDUARDO; GARCIA, ALEJANDRO; MARÍA DACAR,

JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2013 vol. 97 p. 160 - 169

0140-1963

 Plant macrofossils studied in coprolites from small-sized, medium-sized and large mammals, dated by 14C to ca. 30.8-24 and 9 kybp, allowed to record changes in local vegetation and its relation with geomorphological units. Paleobotanical samples were determined using microhistological analysis. We found that plant associations and the vegetation-geomorphology relation were similar in the two periods analyzed. According to this study, the Monte plant formation would reflect certain stability during the analyzed period in the arid central-western Argentina, although this does not implicate the absence of variations in the vegetal structure.