The Skull of Epidolops ameghinoi from the Early Eocene Itaboraí Fauna, Southeastern Brazil, and the Affinities of the Extinct Marsupialiform Order Polydolopimorphia

RMD Beck - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2017 - Springer
The skull of the polydolopimorphian marsupialiform Epidolops ameghinoi is described in
detail for the first time, based on a single well-preserved cranium and associated left and …

Flowering after disaster: Early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from Patagonia

NA Jud, MA Gandolfo, A Iglesias, P Wilf - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Southern-Hemisphere terrestrial communities from the early Paleocene are poorly known,
but recent work on Danian plant fossils from the Salamanca Formation in Chubut Province …

The biogeographical history of non‑marine mammaliaforms in the Sahul region

RMD Beck - Handbook of Australasian biogeography, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Today, the biogeographical region comprising Australia, New Guinea and the adjacent
islands is the only part of the globe where representatives of all three major extant …

Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?

C López‐Aguirre, M Archer, SJ Hand… - Palaeontology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sparassodontans are a diverse but now extinct group of metatherians that were apex
predators in South America during most of the Cenozoic. Studying their decline has been …

Eocene ungulate mammals from West Antarctica: implications from their fossil record and a new species

JN Gelfo, GM López, SN Santillana - Antarctic Science, 2017 - cambridge.org
Here we describe a new terrestrial mammal from the Eocene of Seymour Island (Isla
Marambio) represented by a lower left third molar and assigned to a new species of …

[PDF][PDF] –THE ORIGINS OF AMAZON BIODIVERSITY

A Bean, L Martini, SE Perkins, MB Dias - AN INTRODUCTION TO … - researchgate.net
The Amazon Basin has the highest species richness of any freshwater system in the world
(IUCN 2016). Covering an area almost the size of Australia, and including the largest …