Abstract The Middle Miocene has been identified as a time of great diversification in modern
lineages now distributed in tropical South America, and when basic archetypal traits defining …

The Ctenohystrica is one of the three major lineages of rodents and contains diverse forms
related to gundis, porcupines, and guinea pigs. Phylogenetic analyses of this group using …

Lagostomine rodents (Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) are very abundant in late Cenozoic
vertebrate associations of the Pampean area but the study of their systematics has been …

We provide new and revised identifications of mammals from the early middle Miocene
(Langhian age, Colloncuran South American Land Mammal Age [SALMA]) of Cerdas …

The fossil-bearing stratigraphic sections of the Solimões Formation (southwestern Brazilian
Amazonia) are exposed mainly along the Juruá, Purus, and Acre rivers, and in road cuts …

Los roedores conforman el Orden más numeroso de mamíferos vivientes. Dentro de este
grupo, los caviomorfos representan un clado eminentemente sudamericano con una …

Les rongeurs caviomorphes constituent l'un des groupes de mammifères placentaires les
plus diversifiés d'Amérique du Sud. Malgré la grande diversité taxonomique actuelle et un …

Miocene deposits of South America have yielded several species-rich assemblages of
caviomorph rodents. They are mostly situated at high and mid-latitudes of the continent …

Ecological diversity analysis (EDA) is a technique that uses ecological attributes of
mammals to reconstruct the community structure and habitat of a fossil locality. EDAs of …

We describe two new macraucheniid litopterns from the late middle Miocene (ca. 13 Ma)
Quebrada Honda Fauna of southern Bolivia. The holotype of 'Theosodon'arozquetai, sp …