A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

PO Antoine, MA Abello, S Adnet, AJA Sierra, P Baby… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
We provide a synopsis of~ 60 million years of life history in Neotropical lowlands, based on
a comprehensive survey of the Cenozoic deposits along the Quebrada Cachiyacu near …

Splendid innovation: the extinct South American native ungulates

DA Croft, JN Gelfo, GM López - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Western Amazonia as a hotspot of mammalian biodiversity throughout the Cenozoic

PO Antoine, R Salas-Gismondi, F Pujos… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2017 - Springer
A state-of-the-art review of the Cenozoic fossil record from Western Amazonia is provided,
based on literature and new data (regarding Paleogene native ungulates). It allows …

New mammal faunal data from Cerdas, Bolivia, a middle-latitude Neotropical site that chronicles the end of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in South America

DA Croft, AA Carlini, MÍR Ciancio… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We provide new and revised identifications of mammals from the early middle Miocene
(Langhian age, Colloncuran South American Land Mammal Age [SALMA]) of Cerdas …

[HTML][HTML] Low predator competition indicates occupation of macro-predatory niches by giant Miocene reptiles at La Venta, Colombia

OE Wilson, AK Parker - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The La Venta fauna of Colombia (∼ 13.5–11.5 Ma) represents the most diverse
Tertiary locality in the neotropics, with 75 mammal species and a highly non-analogue …

Giant fossil tortoise and freshwater chelid turtle remains from the middle Miocene, Quebrada Honda, Bolivia: Evidence for lower paleoelevations for the southern …

EA Cadena, F Anaya, DA Croft - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
We describe the first Miocene turtle remains from Bolivia, which were collected from the late
middle Miocene (13.18–13.03 Ma) of Quebrada Honda, southern Bolivia. This material …

Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?

C López‐Aguirre, M Archer, SJ Hand… - Palaeontology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sparassodontans are a diverse but now extinct group of metatherians that were apex
predators in South America during most of the Cenozoic. Studying their decline has been …

Out of Africa: a new Afrotheria lineage rises from extinct South American mammals

LS Avilla, D Mothé - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The South American native ungulates (SANUs) are usually overlooked in Eutherian
phylogenetic studies. In the rare studies where they were included, the diversity of SANUs …

Cranial morphology and phylogenetic relationships of Trigonostylops wortmani, an Eocene South American native ungulate

RDE MacPhee, SH Del Pino, A Kramarz… - Bulletin of the American …, 2021 - BioOne
ABSTRACT In 1933 George G. Simpson described a remarkably complete skull of
Trigonostylops, an Eocene South American native ungulate (SANU) whose relationships …

Astrapotheres from Cañadón Vaca, Middle Eocene of central Patagonia: new insights on diversity, anatomy, and early evolution of Astrapotheria

AG Kramarz, M Bond, AA Carlini - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Astrapotheria is one of the most emblematic groups of endemic South American ungulate-
like extinct mammals, traditionally compared with modern tapirs and rhinos. Oldest …