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Sporormiella sp. is a coprophilous fungi associated with large herbivore dung that can be used as a proxy to track megafaunal extinctions. The data is based on its abundance or absence within dated sediments, which is often presented as a percentage related to the total pollen sum. This poster presents the results of a fossil pollen and Sporomiella analysis from a sediment core extracted from the Page-Ladson Site, located in a sinkhole in the Aucilla River, Florida. The 5 meter core spans the...
A View on Late Pleistocene Megafauna Extinction in Sahul: An Emu Hunt Revisited (2015)
The extinction of megafauna across the globe generates lively and sometimes heated discussion on timing and cause. In the case of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea), the debate is divided into two distinct camps – those that hold a firm belief that humans were responsible, and those that consider the current datasets to thin to provide any definitive answer. These big picture issues are reliant on the acquisition of data from individual sites and data on megafauna comes predominantly from...