A remarkable diversity of plant-eating mammals known as South American native ungulates
(SANUs) flourished in South America for most of the Cenozoic. Although some of these …

Southern South America (SSA) has today a high diversity of climates, environments, biomes,
and biotas, as a result of the complex interaction through time of plants and animals with the …

Excellent surface exposures, known Benioff zone geometry, a dynamic morphology, and the
availability of industry seismic reflection data all make the Andes at 30° S an excellent …

A multivariate analysis of the current South American Land-Mammal Ages is used to
reanalyse the recognized “faunistic (mammal) units” or chronofaunae that appear related to …

The concept of “land-mammal age” as developed in South America is examined. The
“Uquian Land-mammal age” is used as a study case.“Land-mammal age” parataxonomy is …

Clastic sedimentary basins have evolved during the past 40 my in the central Andes (lat. 20°–
28° S) in response to shifting patterns of magmatism and deformation. The distribution of …

In recent years a combination of biostratigraphic, magnetostratigraphic, and radioisotopic
data has been employed to calibrate aspects of the Great American Faunal Interchange …

A gradual impoverishment of autochthonous mammals in the southeastern pampean region
(central eastern Argentina) during the Late Cenozoic is detected. It is partially coeval to the …

ABSTRACT The Golfo San Jorge basin is located in central Patagonia, between latitude 44º
and 47ºS, covering a surface of approximately 170,000 km2. Regarding hydrocarbon …

A diverse (36 taxa), new fossil terrestrial mammal assemblage has been recovered from the
Santacrucian South American Land Mammal 'Age'(SALMA; latest Early Miocene) in the …