Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

Mammalian dental morphology and function are strongly linked to diet. Within mammals,
phyllostomid bats are the most diverse family in terms of dietary ecology and thus represent …

The first steps in the history of South American mammals took place ca. 130 Ma., when the
South American plate, still connected to the Antarctic Peninsula, began to drift away from the …

The teeth of mammals are the key interface between food and animal–where the rubber
meets the road. Mammals generally use their teeth for mechanical processing, thereby …

Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation (late–early Miocene, southern Patagonia,
Argentina) between the Coyle and Gallegos rivers have been a fertile ground for recovery of …

The Pinturas Formation is a continental succession, characterized by eolian sediments
(mainly tuffaceous) and paleosols, originated in an upland setting of west central Patagonia …

Abstract Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, has some of the richest fossil mammal localities in
the world. However, the absolute and relative ages of its fossil localities have long been a …

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 …