A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela

JD Carrillo-Briceño, R Sánchez, TM Scheyer… - Swiss Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in the Neotropics is poorly understood despite
the major climatic changes that occurred at the onset of the Quaternary. The San Gregorio …

Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics, and paleobiological …

AM Forasiepi, RDE MacPhee, SH Del Pino… - Bulletin of the American …, 2016 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The Huayquerías Formation (Late Miocene, Huayquerian SALMA) is broadly
exposed in west-central Argentina (Mendoza). The target of several major paleontological …

External and internal anatomy of a petrosal from the late Paleocene of Itaboraí, Brazil, referred to Notoungulata (Placentalia)

G Billet, CD Muizon - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We describe the earliest petrosal bone referred to the South American endemic
Notoungulata, from the late Paleocene-early Eocene Beds of Itaboraí, which provides a …

The cranial morphospace of extant marsupials

NP Giannini, MM Morales, LAB Wilson… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2021 - Springer
Marsupials represent a major mammalian diversification today restricted geographically to
the Americas (but chiefly to the Neotropical Region) and Australasia. The group is highly …

Notoungulate faunas of north-western Argentina: new findings of early-diverging forms from the Eocene Geste Formation

DA García-López, MJ Babot - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Vertebrate-bearing deposits of the Geste Formation (Late Eocene) crop out in the Puna of
Catamarca and Salta, north-western Argentina, and have yielded specimens of a variety of …

Toward a chronostratigraphy of the Paleocene-Eocene sedimentary record in northwestern Argentina

C del Papa, J Babot, J Dahlquist, DG López… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Santa Bárbara Subgroup of the Salta Group in northwestern Argentina represents a key
sedimentary record to understand the geological, biological, and climatological changes that …

Ecomorphology of mammalian fossil lineages: identifying morphotypes in a case study of endemic South American ungulates

NP Giannini, DA García-López - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2014 - Springer
The notoungulates are one major clade of extinct native South American ungulate
mammals. Several notoungulate morphotypes have been proposed by comparison with …

Re-evaluating cranial pathways of the internal carotid artery in Notoungulata (Mammalia, Panperissodactyla)

RDE MacPhee, AM Forasiepi - Ameghiniana, 2022 - BioOne
On the basis of selected osteological markers, Patterson identified two pathways (here
designated A and B) along which the internal carotid artery in notoungulates was said to …

A new Eocene Toxodontia (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from northwestern Argentina

V Deraco, DA GarcÍa-López - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new species of Toxodontia (Mammalia, Notoungulata), Pampahippus
secundus sp. nov., is described based on remains recovered from outcrops of the Lumbrera …

A new Eocene dasypodid with caniniforms (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from northwest Argentina

CMR Herrera, JE Powell, GI Esteban… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2017 - Springer
The aim of this work is to present a new genus and species of Dasypodidae from the
Lumbrera Formation (“lower Lumbrera”), early-middle Eocene of Salta Province, northwest …