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Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2009
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Title
Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2009
DOI 10.1073/pnas.0908153106
Pubmed ID
Authors

J. Tyler Faith, Todd A. Surovell

Abstract

The late Pleistocene witnessed the extinction of 35 genera of North American mammals. The last appearance dates of 16 of these genera securely fall between 12,000 and 10,000 radiocarbon years ago (approximately 13,800-11,400 calendar years B.P.), although whether the absence of fossil occurrences for the remaining 19 genera from this time interval is the result of sampling error or temporally staggered extinctions is unclear. Analysis of the chronology of extinctions suggests that sampling error can explain the absence of terminal Pleistocene last appearance dates for the remaining 19 genera. The extinction chronology of North American Pleistocene mammals therefore can be characterized as a synchronous event that took place 12,000-10,000 radiocarbon years B.P. Results favor an extinction mechanism that is capable of wiping out up to 35 genera across a continent in a geologic instant.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 4%
Canada 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Cuba 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 249 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 58 21%
Researcher 50 18%
Student > Bachelor 42 15%
Student > Master 26 10%
Other 21 8%
Other 47 17%
Unknown 29 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 88 32%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 55 20%
Social Sciences 32 12%
Arts and Humanities 22 8%
Environmental Science 21 8%
Other 17 6%
Unknown 38 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 March 2024.
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#127
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