A review of paleontological, phyletic, geophysical, and climatic evidence leads to a new
scenario of land mammal dispersal among South America, Antarctica, and Australia in the …

The patterns of distribution of vertebrates (primarily terrestrial forms) are analysed from the
Silurian onwards, using palaeogeographical maps which show epicontinental seas as well …

Recently discovered deposits containing terrestrial mammal fossils, together with
multidisciplinary studies of classical sequences, have yielded dramatic insights into the …

Five new species of marsupials are described from the middle Eocene La Meseta Formation
of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Three are derorhynchid didelphimorphians; one …

Newly described marsupial specimens of Judithian (late Campanian) and Lancian
(Maastrichtian) age in the western interior of North America (Wyoming to Alberta) have …

The first steps in the history of South American mammals took place ca. 130 Ma., when the
South American plate, still connected to the Antarctic Peninsula, began to drift away from the …

South America's peculiar extinct mammalian fauna has been a source of fascination since
the late 1700's when a Pleistocene skeleton of the giant ground sloth Megatherium, later …

Current theories regarding colonization of South America by mammals are divided between
those supported by fossil evidence, which suggest the original mammal fauna of the isolated …

This book is a unique compendium and synthesis of the cumulative knowledge of more than
100 years of discovery and study of North American tertiary mammals. The potentially most …

Of the three southern continents, South America was more isolated during the Tertiary than
Africa, less isolated than Australia. Its record of Cenozoic mammalian life is better than that …