Nearctic ungulates such as artiodactyls, perissodactyls, and proboscideans arrived in South
America during the Great American Biotic Interchange. Among them are camelids, cervids …

Abstract Studies on South American Gomphotheriidae started around 210 years ago and,
150 years later, the classic study “The mastodonts of Brazil” by Simpson and Paula Couto …

The extinct Gomphotheriidae is the only proboscidean family that colonized South America.
The phylogenetic position of the endemic taxa has been through several revisions using …

The contemporary mammalian communities of South America were defined by the rise of the
Isthmus of Panama and by the deep climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene …

Abstract The diversity of South American proboscideans during the Quaternary has been a
subject of discussion for decades. The presence of Cuvieronius hyodon in South America is …

In this study, we present new records of the extinct South American proboscidean
Notiomastodon platensis from three new fossiliferous sites in the riverbed of Cauca River, in …

The Proboscidea were very prominent in South American ecosystems during the
Pleistocene and part of the Holocene. Specifically, in Valle del Cauca (Colombia), fossils of …

In 2008 a rich accumulation of vertebrate bones and teeth was discovered in a small
tributary drainage to Big Cypress Creek near the town of Hockley in Harris County, Texas …

We performed a paleopathological and paleoepidemiological analysis for a Notiomastodon
platensis population (47 individuals) from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil recovered from …

Numerous surveys and three excavation and surface collection field seasons resulted in the
discovery of numerous megafaunal remains and that of a medium-sized felid in a new site …