The most important Cenozoic marine transgression in Patagonia occurred during the late
Oligocene–early Miocene when marine waters of Pacific and Atlantic origin flooded most of …

Abstract The Peruvian Province, from 6° S in Peru to 42° S in Chile, is a highly productive
coastal marine region whose biology and fossil record have long been studied separately …

Over long-term geological scales, the position and vertical movements of the coast are
considered to be among the most important effects resulting from first-order plate tectonics …

En esta tesis se presentan los resultados del estudio arqueológico de sitios concheros
ubicados en diferentes localidades a lo largo de la costa norte de Santa Cruz (en adelante …

Few fossil fish otolith associations have been described from the Pacific side of the Americas
and, except for a single species (Steindachneria svennielseni), none have been described …

Background During the last decade, new Neogene fossil assemblages from South America
have revealed important clues about the evolution of seabird faunas in one of the major …

ABSTRACT Rudolph Amandus Philippi (known in Chile as Rodulfo Amando Philippi), was
one of the longest-lived and most prolific malacologists of the 19th century, as his scientific …

The fossil record of marine mammals from the upper Pliocene of the western coast of South
America is poorly known, hindering our knowledge about how and when marine mammal …

Recent fieldwork on Neogene deposits of northern Chile led to the discovery of new
material, including three new species of the echinoid genus Arbacia: Arbacia quyllur sp. nov …

The early Miocene is characterized by warm conditions until the middle Miocene when
temperatures dropped significantly. The presence of tropical to subtropical invertebrate …