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Quaternary South America
Ideal landscape of the Quaternary Period in South America, including Glyptodon, Megatherium, Mylodon and a Mastodon. A small ape (Orcopithecus) climbs the tropical vegetation typical to the Americas at that time. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition.
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