Living rodents show great diversity in their locomotor habits, including semiaquatic,
arboreal, fossorial, ricochetal, and gliding species from multiple families. To assess the …

This chapter reviews the paleobiology of pilosans (anteaters and sloths) from the Santa Cruz
Formation, which comprise at least one genus of vermilinguan and 11 genera of sloths …

Members of the order Carnivora display a broad range of locomotor habits, including
cursorial, scansorial, arboreal, semiaquatic, aquatic, and semifossorial species from multiple …

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The forelimbs, along with the crania, are an essential part of the prey‐killing apparatus in
cats. Linear morphometrics of the forelimbs were used to determine the morphological …

Functional analysis of the limb bones of the erethizontid Steiromys duplicatus, one of the
most abundant Miocene porcupines from Patagonia, provides evidence to infer their …

The mammalian masticatory apparatus is a highly plastic region of the skull. In this study, a
quantification of shape variation, the separation of phylogeny from ecology in the genesis of …

Ecomorphological diversity of Mesozoic mammals was presumably constrained by selective
pressures imposed by contemporary vertebrates. In accordance, Mesozoic mammals for a …

A paleobiological study of Santacrucian native ungulates is presented in this chapter. Seven
families are recorded: Hegetotheriidae, Interatheriidae, Toxodontidae, and …

Body size is correlated with virtually every morphological, physiological, and life-history trait
in mammal species. As a consequence, estimates of body size of fossil species are often …