An appraisal of Paleogene floral and land mammal faunal dynamics in South America
suggests that both biotic elements responded at rate and extent generally comparable to …

We report two fossil procyonids, Cyonasua sp. and Chapalmalania sp., from the late
Pliocene of Venezuela (Vergel Member, San Gregorio Formation) and Colombia (Ware …

Oryzomyini is the richest tribe among the S igmodontine rodents, encompassing 32 living
and extinct genera and including an increasing number of recently described species and …

The ecological interaction between small and medium sized South American metatherian
carnivores, from the Miocene to Recent, has been analyzed with the objective to understand …

The genus Reigechimys (Rodentia, Echimyidae) was originally described on the basis of
two mandibular fragments recovered from Huayquerian (late Miocene) outcrops of the Cerro …

Abstract The contemporary South American mammalian communities were determined by
the emergence of the Isthmus of Panama and by the profound climatic oscillations during the …

The nearly complete and well-preserved cranium of Vintana sertichi provides an opportunity
to investigate its dietary adaptations. We used a combination of comparative morphological …

A first approach to determine Early Miocene ecosystems in central Patagonia (mainly San
Jorge Basin) was carried out considering the vegetational communities, inferred through …

To investigate climate evolution during the Miocene, especially during the Middle Miocene
climate transition on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, stable oxygen and carbon isotopes of …

Hapalops, a smaller-sized and early sloth of the Megatheroidea, appeared in the middle
Miocene Santa Cruz formation of Argentina. This genus is part of the group from which later …