The Late Miocene mammals from the Humahuaca Basin (northwestern Argentina) provide new evidence on the initial stages of the Great American Biotic Interchange

AM Candela, MA Abello, MA Reguero… - Papers in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We describe new Late Miocene mammalian specimens from the Maimará
Formation (Late Miocene to Early Pliocene) exposed at Humahuaca Basin (23°–24° S) …

Development of an incipient Paleogene topography between the present‐day Eastern Andean Plateau (Puna) and the Eastern Cordillera, southern Central Andes …

C Montero‐López, F Hongn, RLL Steinmetz… - Basin …, 2021 - earthdoc.org
The structural and topographic evolution of orogenic plateaus is an important research topic
because of its impact on atmospheric circulation patterns, the amount and distribution of …

About the diversity of Dasypodidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata) along the Late Miocene of northwestern Argentina: The case of the Salicas Formation

D Barasoain, LRG Ruiz, D Brandoni - Journal of South American Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
The deposits of the Neogene Salicas Formation crop out along the north area and western
flanks of the Velasco range, in the northern area of La Rioja Province, Argentina. Previous …

The glyptodont Eleutherocercus solidus from the late Neogene of north-western Argentina: Morphology, chronology, and phylogeny

A Núñez Blasco, AE Zurita, ÁR Miño Boilini, RA Bonini… - 2021 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Glyptodonts (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) represent a diversified radiation of
large armored herbivores, mainly related to open biomes in South America, with an …

Endocranial cast anatomy of the Early Miocene glyptodont Propalaehoplophorus australis (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) and its evolutionary implications

A Troyelli, GH Cassini, G Tirao, A Boscaini… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Propalaehoplophorus is an Early Miocene genus of glyptodonts, a group of extinct
armored mammals closely related to armadillos and endemic to South America. Here, we …

The last horned armadillos: phylogeny and decline of Peltephilidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata)

D Barasoain, DA Croft, AE Zurita… - Papers in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Peltephilidae (Xenarthra, Cingulata) is an ancient lineage of medium–large‐sized
'armadillos' from South America, characterized by chisel‐shaped molariforms, a U‐shaped …

A new mammalian assemblage for Guanaco Formation (northwestern Argentina), and the description of a new genus of New World porcupine

MD Ercoli, A Alvarez, DH Verzi, JPV Ulberich… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Guanaco Formation (Orán Group) is one of the Neogene units outcropping in
the Subandean region of northwestern Argentina. The fossil assemblage from the middle …

Pliocene pre-GABI herbivorous mammals from espinar, Peruvian andean plateau

R Salas-Gismondi, D Ochoa, J Gamarra… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Pliocene South American mammals prior to the Great American Biotic
Interchange comprise the evolutionary pinnacle of a long-lasting process of continental …

Postcranial anatomy of the extinct terrestrial sloth Simomylodon uccasamamensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano, and its …

A Boscaini, N Toledo, B Mamani Quispe… - Papers in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extinct terrestrial sloths are common elements of the late Cenozoic South American fossil
record. Among them, Mylodontinae species were particularly abundant in the Americas …

New well-preserved materials of Glossotherium chapadmalense (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pliocene of Argentina shed light on the origin and evolution of …

A Boscaini, N Toledo, LM Pérez… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Fossil remains of extinct mylodontine sloths have been discovered in numerous localities
throughout the American supercontinent, but knowledge of them is still mainly centered on …