Nearly half of the known species of mammals alive today (more than 1600) are rodents or"
gnawing mammals"(Nowak and Paradiso, 1983). The diversity of rodents is greater than that …

Diversity and faunal turnover of North American land mammals are calibrated against the
magnetic polarity time scale for million-year intervals for the latest Eocene through late …

The origins, evolution and palaeodiversity of Australia's unique marsupial fauna are
reviewed. Australia's marsupial fauna is both taxonomically and ecologically diverse …

A critical time interval for vertebrate evolution-between 100 and 112 million years in duration-
spans the beginning of the Cretaceous period to the late Eocene epoch of the Cenozoic …

The timing and causes of extinctions of West Indian land mammals during three time
intervals covering the last 20000 years (late Pleistocene and early Holocene, Amerindian …

Despite its richness, South America's Cenozoic mammal record is strongly biased
geographically towards a small portion of the continent, mainly Patagonia. The rapidly …

The Pleistocene and Holocene fossil record of West Indian birds and mammals is briefly
reviewed, with emphasis on the Greater Antilles; as yet, almost nothing is known of …

As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array
of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and …

The Cenozoic succession of continental mammalian faunas reflects the climatic shift from a"
greenhouse" to an" icehouse" world. In midcontinental North America, where the most nearly …

A multivariate analysis of the current South American Land-Mammal Ages is used to
reanalyse the recognized “faunistic (mammal) units” or chronofaunae that appear related to …