GEOG 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Grizzly Bear, La Brea Tar Pits, Phaseolus Lunatus
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Because animals easily crossed from palearctic through the bering strait. Eurasian species successfully invaded south american species (dominance) More species of salamanders than any other part of the world. The only grizzly, elk, moose bison, reindeer are the only surviving megafauna in n. america today (came from eurasia) Harris"s mountain goat in grand canyon (has horns that. Biogeography shared via c ourse h ero. co m. T his study resource w as (clovis people) dropped which you can radiocarbon date) -> evidence of extinction in 11,100 b. c. (and shaste ground sloth) --> humans appeared during this time in new mexico. Animals were found with spear-points in their ribs (points had a groove to pierce animal) https://www. coursehero. com/file/13353346/lecture-5-north-america/ Lecture 5: north americai. physical geographya. tapered shape like a wedgeii. biogeography: the nearctic regiona. animals1. mammalsa)grizzly bearb)bison, elk, moosec)mountain beaverd)pronghorn antelopee)harris"s mountain goat2. birdsa)wren, buteosb)turkeysiii. megafaunal extinctionsa. 11 kya - megafauna went extinct. Came from east asia 13kya (everyone else amerind)
