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 …

A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials

GP Wilson, EG Ekdale, JW Hoganson… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Marsupial mammal relatives (stem metatherians) from the Mesozoic Era (252–66 million
years ago) are mostly known from isolated teeth and fragmentary jaws. Here we report on …

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 …

Tarsals of Sespedectinae (? Lipotyphla) from the middle Eocene of southern California, and the affinities of Eocene 'erinaceomorphs'

TA Penkrot, SP Zack - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Postcranial morphology of Paleogene lipotyphlans (Mammalia: Laurasiatheria) is poorly
known relative to dental morphology. When these elements can be referred, they have …