Abstract The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) stands out with two human occupation
layers with ground sloth fossil remains from the Late Pleistocene. Here, we explore the …

ABSTRACT A dentary from the Laventan SALMA (middle Miocene) of Quebrada Honda,
Bolivia, recognized as a new, small member of Megatherioidea (Hiskatherium saintandrei …

While the lagerstätte Rancho La Brea in California, USA has yielded millions of specimens,
fossiliferous asphaltic deposits (“tar pits” or “breas”) are globally rare, with< 15 localities. In …

Dermal ossifications (osteoderms, dermal ossicles, osteoscutes) appear independently in
various tetrapod lineages. In mammals, however, dermal ossifications are only present in …

The analysis of the hyoid apparatus of fossil xenarthrans provides insight on the form of the
tongue and its function in food intake and intraoral processing. The hyoid apparatus of …

Extinct scelidotheriine sloths are among the most peculiar fossil mammals from South
America. In recent decades, the external cranial anatomy of Pleistocene scelidotheres such …

Haitian species of the extinct ground sloth genus Neocnus (Mammalia: Pilosa:
Megalonychidae) have previously been hypothesized to have a much reduced jugal bone …

Abstract ECOMORPHOLOGY OF EXTINCT XENARTHRANS: ANALYSIS OF THE
MANDIBLE USING GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS METHODS. In the past, xenarthrans …

This chapter reviews information about the extinct fauna that lived in the Brazilian
Intertropical Region (BIR) between 64 and 10 ka BP Data from the available literature …

The Gondwanatheria are an enigmatic clade of Cretaceous and Paleogene mammals
known from South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, and the Antarctic Peninsula. The …