O conhecimento limitado em relação à megafauna brasileira (oriundo de uma tradição
acadêmica taxonomista no país) e a falta de escavações estratigraficamente controladas de …

3. Discussion As said in the Introduction, even in a previous work by the same authors
(Bocherens et al., 2016), while analysing the δ 15 N in several mammals, it was found that …

Este trabajo resume algunos aspectos de mi investigación en biomecánica y paleobiología.
El indicador de resistencia o de capacidad atlética (ICA) se usó para estimar la performance …

Ungual phalanges (the most distal bone within a limb) and claws (the overlying corneous
sheath) from the third digit of the forefoot of selected Pleistocene ground sloths (Lestodon …

The Xenarthra represents an enigmatic clade of placental mammals that includes living tree
sloths, armadillos, and their extinct relatives, yet certain aspects of the biology of this group …

The Lujanian megamammals (late Pleistocene of South America) show many
palaeoautecological peculiarities. The present paper studies one of them, the locomotor …

As the ungual phalanges of tetrapods are the first structures that interact with the substrate,
studying them is of great importance when wanting to know the locomotor behaviour of …

The inhibitory cascade (IC) represents a developmental model that explains the evolution of
molar relative sizes, originally described in rodents but later validated in several mammalian …

This study presents pathological conditions observed in the clavicular joints of the extinct
giant ground sloth Megatherium americanum. Clavicles are key for shoulders and forelimbs …

Xenarthra is a diverse mammalian order consisting of extant and extinct armadillos,
anteaters and sloths, and extinct glyptodonts and pampatheres. The extinct ground sloths …