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New book brings prehistoric mammals to life – Research News

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-book-brings-prehistoric-mammals-to-life/

After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A new book brings readers into this world with well-researched species profiles by Aaron Woodruff, collection manager for vertebrate paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The book also includes stunning illustrations by pale
It was the size of a jaguar and preyed on horses and small rhinos.

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Maya politics likely played role in ancient large game decline – Research News

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When Kitty Emery goes hunting for large-game, she doesn’t have to wait for the right season, because the animals that Emery hunts are already dead. And her hunting has paid off. A study published by Florida Museum of Natural History Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology Kitty Emery i
symbolically important species such as white-tailed deer and large wild cats like jaguar

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Rhizosmilodon fiteae – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Rhizosmilodon fiteae Quick Facts Common Name: Fite’s saber-tooth cat Rhizosmilodon fiteae is a small-sized, saber-toothed cat known only from Florida; but most species of felids have large geographic ranges, so it would not be surprising to find its fossils in other areas of North America.
Rhizosmilodon fitae weighed about 165 lbs., the same as a medium-sized, modern jaguar

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Sierra del Lacandón – Environmental Archaeology

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The Political Role of Animals in the Sierra del Lacandón, Guatemala Project Zooarchaeologists: Ashley Sharpe and Kitty Emery Animals were used for much more than just food in the past: in many Maya communities, the control of certain animal species played an important role maintaining social net
consisted of considerably more exotic and symbolically important species, such as jaguar

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Rancholabrean North American Land Mammal Age – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Defining taxon: first appearance of Bison south of 55° N latitude (Bell et al., 2004) Basis of name: Rancho la Brea tar pits, Los Angeles, California The Rancholabrean NALMA is represented by several thousand individual vertebrate fossil sites distributed from Alaska to Central America. There
Examples of these include the jaguar Panthera onca, the panther Puma concolor, the

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Intermediate Area Artifacts – Latin American Archaeology + Ethnography

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See Intermediate Area Bibliography Plate 1. 92935 Northwest Costa Rica Greater Nicoya, Middle Polychrome Period (A.D. 800–1350) Ring-based Jar Papagayo Polychrome Pottery Dimensions: H 29 cm x D 13 cm (K P) The pedestal base with a modeled effigy on this vessel is typical
incorporating the Chiriqui province in Panama and southwestern Costa Rica.[1] The jaguar-head

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Smilodon fatalis – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Smilodon fatalis Quick Facts Common Names: saber-tooth cat (or sabertooth cat), sabercat Smilodon fatalis had a body mass ranging from 350 to 600 pounds, similar in weight to the modern Siberian tiger. Fossils of Smilodon fatalis are not particularly common in Florida, but there have been ma
In contrast, Smilodon gracilis was only about the size of a modern jaguar, weighing

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Melbourne – Florida Vertebrate Fossils

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Melbourne University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality BR002 Location Western part of the city of Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida, at about 28.1° N, 80.6° W. Three separate localities were reported by Gidley and Loomis (1926), of which two produced almost all of the fossils in museum colle
Later, Simpson (1941) described in detail and figured a mandible of the jaguar, 

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