{"title":"Paleobiodiversity and large mammal associations during the late Pliocene and the Early Pleistocene in South Africa","authors":"R. Hanon, M. Patou-Mathis, S. Péan, S. Prat","doi":"10.4000/quaternaire.12131","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a study of the evolution of large mammal associations during the Late Pliocene and the Early Pleistocene in South Africa. We show, based on factor analysis, the existence of at least three large mammal associations between 4.5 and 0.5 Ma with a large mammal turnover between 3.0 and 2.0 Ma. Furthermore, based on cluster analysis, a large mammal turnover between 2.61 and 2.4 is highlighted. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis of a faunal turnover around 2.5 Ma.","PeriodicalId":49645,"journal":{"name":"Quaternaire","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Quaternaire","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.12131","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a study of the evolution of large mammal associations during the Late Pliocene and the Early Pleistocene in South Africa. We show, based on factor analysis, the existence of at least three large mammal associations between 4.5 and 0.5 Ma with a large mammal turnover between 3.0 and 2.0 Ma. Furthermore, based on cluster analysis, a large mammal turnover between 2.61 and 2.4 is highlighted. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis of a faunal turnover around 2.5 Ma.
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La revue Quaternaire créée dès 1964 par l"AFEQ sous le nom de Bulletin de l"AFEQ est devenue Quaternaire en 1990. Ce journal scientifique paraît au rythme de quatre numéros par an. La revue publie des numéros d"auteurs (par ordre d"arrivée des manuscrits après acceptation) ou des numéros thématiques sur proposition ou invitation par le comité de rédaction. Les articles (en langue française, anglaise ou allemande) traitant de tous les aspects du Quaternaire sont acceptés. La revue est publiée avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.