How to weigh a fossil mammal? South American notoungulates as a case study for estimating body mass in extinct clades

A Nelson, RK Engelman, DA Croft - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2023 - Springer
Body mass (BM) is a fundamental variable for many paleobiological investigations that is
challenging to accurately infer for species that lack living representatives and/or close …

Systematic Revision of Interatherium and Icochilus (Interatheriidae, Notoungulata) from the Santa Cruz Formation (Early To Middle Miocene), Santa Cruz Province …

M Fernández, JC Fernicola, E Cerdeño - Ameghiniana, 2023 - BioOne
Interatheriidae (late Paleocene–Late Miocene) is one of the most morphologically derived
families within Order Notoungulata and the most taxonomic diverse and abundant clade of …

Comparative endocranial anatomy, encephalization, and phylogeny of Notoungulata (Placentalia, Mammalia)

FA Perini, TE Macrini, JJ Flynn, K Bamba, X Ni… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
Cranial endocasts are one of the most direct tools available to obtain information about the
endocranial cavity of fossil mammals, but few anatomical comparisons have analyzed …

Ontogenetic and life history trait changes associated with convergent ecological specializations in extinct ungulate mammals

H Gomes Rodrigues, A Herrel… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Investigating life history traits in mammals is crucial to understand their survival in changing
environments. However, these parameters are hard to estimate in a macroevolutionary …

A new south American paleogene land mammal fauna, Guabirotuba Formation (southern Brazil)

FA Sedor, ÉV Oliveira, DD Silva, LA Fernandes… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2017 - Springer
The Paleogene vertebrate-bearing sites of Brazil are restricted to few formations such as
Maria Farinha (Late Cretaceous-early Paleocene), Itaboraí (early Eocene), Entre-Córregos …

The Interatheriinae (Mammalia, Notoungulata) of the Friasian sensu stricto and Mayoan (middle to late Miocene), and the fossils from Cerro Zeballos, Patagonia …

B Vera, L González Ruiz, N Novo, G Martin… - Journal of Systematic …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The middle to late Miocene Friasian sensu stricto, Colloncuran and Mayoan South American
Land Mammal Ages (SALMAs) were established based on the mammals recovered from the …

Biostratigraphic significance of the presence of Protypotherium cf. P. antiquum Ameghino 1885 (Interatheriidae, Notoungulata) in the late Miocene of Northwestern …

MA Armella, RA Bonini - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Interatheriinae (Notoungulata, Interatheriidae) includes small, rodent-like, and
cursorial mammal herbivores. They are known from the early Oligocene and became …

Systematic and morphogeometric analyses of Pachyrukhinae (Mammalia, Hegetotheriidae) from the Huayquerías, Mendoza (Argentina): biostratigraphic and …

B Vera, MD Ercoli - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
We present new remains of Pachyrukhinae (Hegetotheriidae) from the Huayquerías del Este
(Mendoza, Argentina). We identify Tremacyllus impressus, proposing T. subdiminutus as a …

New insights into the Kibenikhoria and Ernestokokenia faunas and the implications for the early Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina

B Vera, JM Krause - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Kibenikhoria and Ernestokokenia local faunas were described in the 1930s
by George G. Simpson, who defined them as two chronologically consecutive faunas based …

The interatheriinae notoungulates from the middle Miocene Collón Curá formation in Argentina

BS Vera, MA Reguero, LR Gonzalez Ruiz - 2017 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The Interatheriinae (Notoungulata, Interatheriidae) from the Collón Curá Formation
(Colloncuran South American Land Mammal Age, SALMA) are revised here, based on old …