The Camelidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the quaternary of South America: cladistic and biogeographic hypotheses

CS Scherer - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2013 - Springer
Presented here is a cladistic analysis of the South American and some North American
Camelidae. This analysis shows that Camelini and Lamini are monophyletic groups, as are …

The elusive evidence: the archeological record of the South American extinct megafauna

LA Borrero - American megafaunal extinctions at the end of the …, 2009 - Springer
Here I consider the evidence for the interactions of humans and South American late
Pleistocene megafauna, a subject not usually covered in much detail in general …

Fossil Horses of South America

JL Prado, MT Alberdi - Phylogeny, systemics and ecology. Cham: Springer, 2017 - Springer
Horses are extremely well represented in the fossil record with around 56 million years of
evolutionary history, underlined by many episodes of extinction and dispersion. More …

The late pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile

M Pino, M Chávez-Hoffmeister, X Navarro-Harris… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Paleontological and archaeological sites have frequently been found in open locations of
the Intermediate Depression of south-central Chile. This paper presents the results of two …

Sistemática y evolución de los Scelidotheriinae (Xenarthra, mylodontidae) cuaternarios de la Argentina

ÁR Miño-Boilini - 2012 - sedici.unlp.edu.ar
Los Scelidotheriinae representan un grupo sudamericano que, a pesar de tener una
distribución geográfica muy amplia, no participaron del Gran Intercambio Biótico Americano …

[PDF][PDF] New remains of late Pleistocene mammals from the Chuí Creek, Southern Brazil

JC Pereira, RP Lopes, L Kerber - Revista Brasileira de …, 2012 - researchgate.net
The Chuí Creek, located in the southernmost Brazil, is a fossiliferous outcrop known since
the late 1960s, which bears important records of late Pleistocene mammals, other …

Gomortega keule, the neglected and endangered Chilean fruit tree

D Muñoz-Concha, MR Davey - European journal of forest research, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Gomortega keule (Mol.) Baillon is the only species belonging to the family
Gomortegaceae and is regarded as an ancient surviving lineage within the Laurales. The …

The Diversity of South American Equus: Did Size Really Matter?

H Machado, L Avilla - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The extant horse genus Equus originated in North America, probably during the late
Miocene/early Pliocene, and its entrance into South America was possibly related to one of …

First evidence of an underwater Final Pleistocene terrestrial extinct faunal bone assemblage from Central Chile (South America): Taxonomic and taphonomic analyses

I Cartajena, P López, D Carabias, C Morales… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1), located in Quintero Bay (32° S, Central Chile)
constitutes the first evidence of a drowned terrestrial site on the continental West Coast of …

Biostratigraphy of the Pleistocene fossiliferous deposits of the southern Brazilian coastal area

RP Lopes - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2013 - Springer
Fossils of Pleistocene mammals have been discovered in the southern Brazilian coastal
area since the late XIX century, in two main places: the continental shelf and the Chuí Creek …