Bayesian total-evidence dating revisits sloth phylogeny and biogeography: a cautionary tale on morphological clock analyses

JV Tejada, PO Antoine, P Münch, G Billet… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… In contrast, historical biogeography inference using … statements about macroevolutionary
and biogeographic patterns … biogeography of sloths: insights from a Bayesian morphological …

[PDF][PDF] Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths 2

HN Poinar - hal.umontpellier.fr
… Our mitogenomic tree revisits the phylogenetic relationships among living and extinct sloths
Phylogeny, 815 macroevolutionary trends and historical biogeography of sloths: insights

The conquest of spaces: exploring drivers of morphological shifts through phylogenetic palaeoecology

JC Lamsdell - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2021 - Elsevier
trends in horseshoe crab evolution and comparison with case studies on angiosperm plants,
giant ground sloths, … that phylogenetic palaeoecology – a synthesis of macroevolution and …

Paleoecological inferences about the Late Quaternary giant sloths

MAT Dantas, SC Campbell, HG McDonald - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
… niche and broaden our understanding of the wider ecological diversity of extinct sloth taxa. …
ground sloths, we also used the muzzle width technique for giant ground sloths proposed …

On the status of the giant mylodontine sloth Glossotherium wegneri (Spillmann, 1931)(Xenarthra, Folivora) from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador

GDE Iuliis, A Boscaini, F Pujos, RK Mcafee… - Comptes Rendus …, 2020 - flore.unifi.it
… Co-occurrence of mylodontid sloths and insights on their potential distributions during the …
Phylogeny, macroevolutionary trends and historical biogeography of sloths: insights from a …

The Endocranial Cavities of Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora): Insights from the Brain Endocast, Bony Labyrinth, and Cranial Sinuses

A Boscaini, DA Iurino, R Sardella, TJ Gaudin… - … of Amniotes: New …, 2022 - Springer
… on endocranial morphology in fossil sloths, recovered though natural or … ) sloth skulls.
General patterns include a conservative brain anatomy among sloths, a strong phylogenetic

Cranial osteology of the basal megatherioid sloth Schismotherium (Mammalia, Xenarthra) and its taxonomic implications

T Gaudin, T Scaife, N Toledo, G De Iuliis - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… further anatomical and phylogenetic investigations of Santacrucian sloths. … sloths, and hence,
as noted above, its potential to provide insight into early cranial evolution and phylogenetic

Mosaic patterns of homoplasy accompany the parallel evolution of suspensory adaptations in the forelimb of tree sloths (Folivora: Xenarthra)

JK Spear, SA Williams - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
phylogenetic inheritance interact in the forelimb of tree sloths, … offer insight into the processes
that generated them. We use … implications for the macroevolutionary trends we are trying to …

3D finite element analysis and geometric morphometrics of sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) mandibles shows insights on the dietary specializations of fossil taxa

L Varela, PS Tambusso, JMP Zerpa, RK McAfee… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
… the phylogenetic relationships of the studied taxa and its influence on the form and function
of the evaluated mandibles, we used a phylogenetic … In this aspect, different tendencies were …

Evolution of marsupial biodiversity

M Cascini - 2020 - eprints.qut.edu.au
… , introduced phylogeny as the science of reconstructing phylogeneticmacroevolutionary
biology is to reconstruct the path of evolutionary transformation over time and across phylogeny. …