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 …

The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

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 …

Vestigial structures occur at both the anatomical and molecular levels, but studies
documenting the co-occurrence of morphological degeneration in the fossil record and …

The Mesozoic plate tectonic and paleogeographic history of the final break up of West
Gondwana had a profound effect on the distribution of terrestrial vertebrates in South …

Here we describe two new caviomorphs from the early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the
Andean Main Range of central Chile, representing the most ancient rodents known from the …

The goal of ecomorphology is to identify morphological variation that is related to ecology
(eg, dietary preference or locomotor habits), with the aim of inferring ecological traits from …

This study investigates whether terrestrial mammalian carnivore guilds of ancient South
America, which developed in relative isolation, were similar to those of other continents. We …

Les rongeurs caviomorphes constituent l'un des groupes de mammifères placentaires les
plus diversifiés d'Amérique du Sud. Malgré la grande diversité taxonomique actuelle et un …

Many important Pliocene hominin specimens have been recovered from Woranso-Mille, a
paleontological research area in the Afar region of Ethiopia, including the complete cranium …