First Byzantinia from Afro-Arabia and the evolutionary history of extinct cricetodontine rodents investigated through Bayesian phylogenetic inference

R López-Antoñanzas, F Knoll, D Azar… - Journal of Systematic …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The Cricetodontinae is a subfamily of extinct rodents from Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
Byzantinia is a cricetodontine genus that currently includes 10 species. This genus …

New data on the diversity and chronology of the late Miocene Xenarthra (Mammalia) from Ecuador

JL Román-Carrión, R Madden… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Xenarthra are an endemic and relictual clade of Placentalia that played an important role in
the biodiversity during the Cenozoic in today South America. Fossil forms representing close …

[PDF][PDF] Unexpected inhibitory cascade in the molariforms of sloths (Folivora, Xenarthra): a case study in xenarthrans honouring Gerhard Storch's open-mindedness

L Varela, PS Tambusso, R Fariña - Fossil Imprint, 2020, 76 (1): 1 …, 2020 - researchgate.net
The inhibitory cascade (IC) represents a developmental model that explains the evolution of
molar relative sizes, originally described in rodents but later validated in several mammalian …

Cranial osteology and taxonomy of Pronothrotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Nothrotheriidae) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene of Catamarca Province (Argentina)

TJ Gaudin, S Tuckniss, A Boscaini, FRF Pujos… - 2020 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Pronothrotherium typicum is a late Miocene–early Pliocene (Huayquerian–Chapadmalalan
SALMA) nothrotheriid sloth known from the Catamarca Province of northwestern Argentina …

[PDF][PDF] 3D models related to the publication: 3D Finite Element Analysis and Geometric Morphometrics of Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) Mandibles Show Insights on the …

L Varela, PS Tambusso - MorphoMuseuM, 2023 - researchgate.net
The present 3D Dataset contains the 3D models analyzed in 3D Finite Element Analysis and
Geometric Morphometrics of Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) Mandibles Show Insights on the …

Nematherium (Xenarthra, Folivora) en el Serravalliense de La Venta, Departamento de Huila, Colombia; implicancias cronológicas y biogeográficas

ÁR Miño-Boilini, D Brandoni - Andean geology, 2023 - SciELO Chile
Resumen MINO-BOILINI, Ángel R. y BRANDONI, Diego. Nematherium (Xenarthra, Folivora)
from the Serravallian of La Venta, Department of Huila, Colombia; chronological and …

The Status of Eucholoeops fronto and E. lafonei (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megalonychidae) in the Systematics of the Early Miocene Eucholoeops (Santa Cruz, Argentina)

G De Iuliis, MS Bargo, N Toledo, LJS Tsuji, SF Vizcaíno - Ameghiniana, 2024 - BioOne
This report is a continuation of the work published a decade ago on the status of specimens
assigned in the literature and museum records to the megalonychid sloth Eucholoeops from …

Evolutive Implications of Megathericulus patagonicus (Xenarthra, Megatheriinae) from the Miocene of Patagonia Argentina

D Brandoni, LG Ruiz, J Bucher - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2020 - Springer
In this contribution we describe a partial dentary with teeth and an astragalus referred to the
ancient megatheriine Megathericulus patagonicus Ameghino, 1904 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) …

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

JV Tejada, PO Antoine, P Münch, G Billet, L Hautier… - 2023 - redciencia.cu
Combining morphological and molecular characters through Bayesian total-evidence dating
allows inferring the phylogenetic and timescale framework of both extant and fossil taxa …

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
Folivora (sloths) constitutes a taxonomically rich group comprised of many extinct
representatives and a few living forms. The clade also shows remarkable skeletal disparity …