A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

PO Antoine, MA Abello, S Adnet, AJA Sierra, P Baby… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide a synopsis of~ 60 million years of life history in Neotropical lowlands, based on
a comprehensive survey of the Cenozoic deposits along the Quebrada Cachiyacu near …

Splendid innovation: the extinct South American native ungulates

DA Croft, JN Gelfo, GM López - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
A remarkable diversity of plant-eating mammals known as South American native ungulates
(SANUs) flourished in South America for most of the Cenozoic. Although some of these …

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates

F Welker, MJ Collins, JA Thomas, M Wadsley, S Brace… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as
the approximately 280 genera grouped as 'South American native ungulates'. To Charles …

Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

TJD Halliday, P Upchurch, A Goswami - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The 'Age of Mammals' began in the Paleocene epoch, the 10 million year
interval immediately following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. The apparently …

[图书][B] Megafauna: giant beasts of pleistocene South America

RA Fariña, SF Vizcaíno, G De Iuliis - 2013 - books.google.com
“An enjoyable read that provides a substantial amount of detail on the biology, ecology, and
distribution of these fantastic animals... Highly recommended.”—Choice More than 10,000 …

Alcidedorbignya inopinata, a basal pantodont (Placentalia, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia: anatomy, phylogeny and palaeobiology

C De Muizon, G Billet, C Argot, S Ladevèze… - Geodiversitas, 2015 - BioOne
Alcidedorbignya inopinata is a basal pantodont (Placentalia, Mammalia) of small body size,
from the early Palaeocene of the Santa Lucia Formation at Tiupampa, Bolivia. Tiupampa is …

Phylogeny of the Notoungulata (Mammalia) based on cranial and dental characters

G Billet - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The Notoungulata is the richest order of South American endemic placentals, but
phylogenetic relationships within this order are unclear. This work provides short …

Paleobiology of Santacrucian native ungulates (Meridiungulata: Astrapotheria, Litopterna, and Notoungulata)

GH Cassini, E Cerdeño, AL Villafañe… - … in Patagonia: high …, 2012 - books.google.com
A paleobiological study of Santacrucian native ungulates is presented in this chapter. Seven
families are recorded: Hegetotheriidae, Interatheriidae, Toxodontidae, and …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the inhibitory cascade model in Mesozoic and Cenozoic mammaliaforms

TJD Halliday, A Goswami - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Much of the current research in the growing field of evolutionary development
concerns relating developmental pathways to large-scale patterns of morphological …

Petrosal and inner ear anatomy and allometry amongst specimens referred to Litopterna (Placentalia)

G Billet, C De Muizon, R Schellhorn, I Ruf… - Zoological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
New isolated petrosals from the Itaboraí beds of Brazil (late Palaeocene or early Eocene)
are here described and referred to the early diverging litoptern Miguelsoria parayirunhor …