Late middle Miocene Metatheria (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata) from Juan Guerra, San Martín Department, Peruvian Amazonia

NS Stutz, MA Abello, L Marivaux, M Boivin… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, marsupials (modern members of the Metatheria clade) are widely distributed in
tropical and subtropical areas of South America, but poorly represented in the fossil record …

New material of Incadelphys antiquus (Pucadelphyda, Metatheria, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Bolivia reveals phylogenetic affinities with enigmatic North …

C de Muizon, S Ladevèze - Geodiversitas, 2022 - BioOne
The present paper describes a partial skull referred to Incadelphys antiquus, from the early
Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia). The specimen includes the anterior part of the skull with …

Taxonomy, affinities, and paleobiology of the tiny metatherian mammal Minusculodelphis, from the early Eocene of South America

ÉV Oliveira, N Zimicz, FJ Goin - The Science of Nature, 2016 - Springer
With less than 3 g of estimated body mass, the early Eocene Minusculodelphis minimus
Paula Couto (Mammalia, Metatheria, Jaskhadelphyidae) is one of the smallest mammals …

Amazonia as the origin and diversification area of Didelphidae (Mammalia: Metatheria), and a review of the fossil record of the clade

MC Castro, MJ Dahur, GS Ferreira - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2021 - Springer
Didelphidae is the largest New World radiation of marsupials, and is mostly represented by
arboreal, small-to medium-sized taxa that inhabit tropical and/or subtropical forests. The …

[PDF][PDF] New species of Peradectes and Swaindelphys (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the Early Paleocene (Torrejonian) Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New …

TE Williamson, LH Taylor - Palaeontologia Electronica, 2011 - paleo.carleton.ca
Three new metatherian taxa are reported from the early Paleocene (Torrejonian) of the
Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico; two new species of Swaindelphys, S …

A tiny-sized Herpetotheriidae (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Itaboraí Basin (early Eocene), Brazil: Paleobiogeographic and systematic implications for …

LM Carneiro, FJ Goin, H Bampi, RC Silva… - Journal of South …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Itaboraí Basin, located in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has preserved one of
the most important early Eocene vertebrate assemblages of the Southern Hemisphere …

[PDF][PDF] Austropediomys marshalli gen. et sp. nov., a new Pediomyoidea (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Paleogene of Brazil: Paleobiogeographic implications

LM Carneiro, EV Oliveira, FJ Goin - Revista Brasileira de …, 2018 - academia.edu
The Pediomyiodea has been largely regarded as a Late Cretaceous North American
metatherian lineage; however, some studies have suggested that a few South American …

Life in proto‐Amazonia: Middle Miocene mammals from the Fitzcarrald Arch (Peruvian Amazonia)

JV Tejada‐Lara, R Salas‐Gismondi, F Pujos… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Middle Miocene has been identified as a time of great diversification in modern
lineages now distributed in tropical South America, and when basic archetypal traits defining …

Middle Miocene vertebrates from the Amazonian Madre de Dios subandean zone, Peru

PO Antoine, M Roddaz, S Brichau… - Journal of South …, 2013 - Elsevier
A new middle Miocene vertebrate fauna from Peruvian Amazonia is described. It yields the
marsupials Sipalocyon sp.(Hathliacynidae) and Marmosa (Micoureus) cf. laventica …

Evidence of early evolution of Australidelphia (Metatheria, Mammalia) in South America: phylogenetic relationships of the metatherians from the Late Palaeocene of …

S Ladeveze, C De Muizon - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
New metatherian petrosal bones from the mid to Late Palaeocene of Itaboraí, belonging to
three morphotypes (VI, VII, and VII), are formally described and compared to fossil and …