Continental margin response to multiple arc-continent collisions: The northern Andes-Caribbean margin

C Montes, AF Rodriguez-Corcho, G Bayona… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
An integration of diverse strain markers into a palinspastic reconstruction of the northern
Andes provides a first-order quantitative approximation to the response of a complex margin …

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 …

A middle to late Miocene trans-Andean portal: geologic record in the Tatacoa Desert

C Montes, CA Silva, GA Bayona, R Villamil… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Integration of several geologic lines of evidence reveals the prevalence of a lowland trans-
Andean portal communicating western Amazonia and the westernmost Andes from at least …

Evolution of the Isthmus of Panama: biological, paleoceanographic and paleoclimatological implications

C Jaramillo, K Hoorn, A Perrigo… - Mountains, climate and …, 2018 - books.google.com
The rise of the Isthmus of Panama was the product of small‐scale geological processes that,
nonetheless, had worldwide repercussions. The building of the Panamanian landscape can …

Drainage and sedimentary response of the Northern Andes and the Pebas system to Miocene strike‐slip tectonics: A source to sink study of the Magdalena Basin

S Zapata, L Calderon‐Diaz, C Jaramillo… - Basin …, 2023 - earthdoc.org
Miocene strike‐slip tectonics was responsible for creating and closing short‐lived (ca. 6 Ma)
passages and the emergence of isolated topography in the Northern Andes. These …

A Pliocene–Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela

JD Carrillo-Briceño, R Sánchez, TM Scheyer… - Swiss Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in the Neotropics is poorly understood despite
the major climatic changes that occurred at the onset of the Quaternary. The San Gregorio …

Drastic vegetation change in the Guajira Peninsula (Colombia) during the Neogene

C Jaramillo, P Sepulchre, D Cardenas… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dry biomes occupy~ 35% of the landscape in the Neotropics, but these are heavily human‐
disturbed. In spite of their importance, we still do not fully understand their origins and how …

A new 13 million year old gavialoid crocodylian from proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands reveals parallel evolutionary trends in skull shape linked to longirostry

R Salas-Gismondi, JJ Flynn, P Baby, JV Tejada-Lara… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Gavialoid crocodylians are the archetypal longirostrine archosaurs and, as such,
understanding their patterns of evolution is fundamental to recognizing cranial …

Comparative phylogeography of trans‐Andean freshwater fishes based on genome‐wide nuclear and mitochondrial markers

M Rincon‐Sandoval, R Betancur‐R… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Neotropical region represents one of the greatest biodiversity hot spots on earth.
Despite its unparalleled biodiversity, regional comparative phylogeographic studies are still …

[PDF][PDF] 140 million years of tropical biome evolution

C Jaramillo - The Geology of Colombia (ed. Gomez, J.). Colombian …, 2019 - stri-apps.si.edu
The origin and development of Neotropical biomes are central to our understanding of
extant ecosystems and our ability to predict their future. During the Cretaceous, biomass of …