Lujanian Explained

The Lujanian age is a South American land mammal age within the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs of the Neogene, from 0.8–0.011 Ma or 800–11 tya. It follows the Ensenadan.[1] The age is usually divided into the middle Pleistocene Bonaerian stage, which ends at about 130,000 years, and the Lujanian, which lasts from about 130,000 years into the early Holocene.[2] The latter Lujanian stage overlaps chronologically with the North American Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean.

Fauna include ground sloths, litopterns, short-faced bears, South American horse Amerhippus and cingulates such as glyptodonts and the armadillo-like Pachyarmatherium.

Notes and References

  1. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayInterval&interval_no=718 Paleo Database: Lujanian
  2. Cione . A. L. . Tonni, E. P. . Soibelzon, L. . The Broken Zig-Zag: Late Cenozoic large mammal and tortoise extinction in South America . Rev. Mus. Argentino Cienc. Nat. . New Series . 5 . 1 . 1–19 . 2003 . 10.22179/REVMACN.5.26 . 1514-5158 . 2011-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706084815/http://www.ege.fcen.uba.ar/materias/general/Broken_ZigZagMACN_5_1_19_.pdf . 2011-07-06 . free .