The evolution and fossil record of palaeognathous birds (Neornithes: Palaeognathae)

K Widrig, DJ Field - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The extant diversity of the avian clade Palaeognathae is composed of the iconic flightless
ratites (ostriches, rheas, kiwi, emus, and cassowaries), and the volant tinamous of Central …

An improved approach to age-modeling in deep time: Implications for the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina

RB Trayler, MD Schmitz, JI Cuitiño, MJ Kohn… - GSA …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Accurate age-depth models for proxy records are crucial for inferring changes to the
environment through space and time, yet traditional methods of constructing these models …

U-Pb geochronology of the Santa Cruz Formation (early Miocene) at the Río Bote and Río Santa Cruz (southernmost Patagonia, Argentina): Implications for the …

JI Cuitiño, JC Fernicola, MJ Kohn, R Trayler… - Journal of South …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The early Miocene Santa Cruz Formation (SCF) in southern Patagonia hosts the
Santacrucian South American Land Mammal Age (SALMA), whose age is known mainly …

Biogeography in deep time–What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution?

RF Kay - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular data have converged on a consensus about the genus-level phylogeny of extant
platyrrhine monkeys, but for most extinct taxa and certainly for those older than the …

Divergence times and the evolutionary radiation of New World monkeys (Platyrrhini, Primates): an analysis of fossil and molecular data

SI Perez, MF Tejedor, NM Novo, L Aristide - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The estimation of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times among a group of
organisms is a fundamental first step toward understanding its biological diversification. The …

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 …

Skull geometric morphometrics and paleoecology of Santacrucian (late early Miocene; Patagonia) native ungulates (Astrapotheria, Litopterna, and Notoungulata)

GH Cassini - Ameghiniana, 2013 - BioOne
Three orders of South American extinct native ungulates are recorded from the Santa Cruz
Formation along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia: Notoungulata (Adinotherium Ameghino …

Paleoenvironments and paleoecology of the Santa Cruz Formation (early-middle Miocene) along the Río Santa Cruz, Patagonia (Argentina)

RF Kay, SF Vizcaíno, MS Bargo, JP Spradley… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
The continental early-middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation (SCF) in Austral Patagonia
contains the best record of South American mammalian faunas prior to the Great American …

What are the best modern analogs for ancient South American mammal communities? Evidence from ecological diversity analysis (EDA)

AM Catena, DA Croft - 2020 - palaeo-electronica.org
Ecological diversity analysis (EDA) is a technique that uses ecological attributes of
mammals to reconstruct the community structure and habitat of a fossil locality. EDAs of …

Systematic Revision of Interatherium and Icochilus (Interatheriidae, Notoungulata) from the Santa Cruz Formation (Early To Middle Miocene), Santa Cruz Province …

M Fernández, JC Fernicola, E Cerdeño - Ameghiniana, 2023 - BioOne
Interatheriidae (late Paleocene–Late Miocene) is one of the most morphologically derived
families within Order Notoungulata and the most taxonomic diverse and abundant clade of …