Global sea-level changes and substantial vertical displacement along the Monte Grande
Fault (MGF) in the lower Río Ica Valley of south-central Peru influenced the accumulation of …

A consensus on the biostratigraphic age and depositional environment of the Navidad,
Ranquil, and Lacui formations exposed along the tectonic margin of central Chile has been …

I combined data from the taxonomy, phytogeny, functional morphology, biogeography, and
fossil record of gastropods to probe the origins, distribution, and fates of predatory gastropod …

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 …

In Chile, the record of dinosaurs in Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments is often restricted to
footprints, with few skeletal remains. Tetanuran theropods are known in the Upper Jurassic …

Se describen doce taxa de condrictios fósiles provenientes de rocas asignadas al Plioceno
Superior de la Formación Horcón, región de Valparaíso, Chile central; se discuten sus …

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 …

Labral spines are sharp projections of the apertural lip found in some marine gastropods
that are used to penetrate hard-shelled prey. The majority of gastropod genera that contain …

We describe a new species of penguin, Spheniscus chilensis, from Cuenca del Tiburón, late
Pliocene, northern Chile. This species was found in association with a small species of …

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 …