American megafaunal extinctions at the end of the Pleistocene

By G. Haynes. 2009

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Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions on the continents: a short review (2015, background): “Canada south of 60° latitude, contiguous United States and northern Mexico The scale of megafaunal extinctions in North America is very impressive with the disappearance of around 35 genera in the Late Pleistocene (Steadman et al., 2005; Faith and Surovell, 2009; Haynes, 2009, 2013).”
Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern Eurasia (2012, background): “…Lister, 2007), contrasting with North America where, based on available radiocarbon evidence, many or most extinctions seem to have occurred in the Lateglacial, perhaps within less than one thousand years (e.g. Martin and Steadman, 1999; Barnosky et al. 2004; Koch and Barnosky, 2006; Haynes, 2010).”
Linking Top-Down Forces to the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions (2010, background): “The cause for this massive extinction has been debated for decades, with most authors favoring either aboriginal overkill or climate change as the primary driver (Grayson and Meltzer 2003, Barnosky et al. 2004, Burney and Flannery 2005, Haynes 2009).”