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 …

In recent decades there has been a growing interest in proboscideans' body size, given that
mass is highly correlated with biological functions. Different allometric equations have been …

Body mass is one of the basic information in ecological studies, however, this is a rare
information for the Late Pleistocene megafauna of the South America Intertropical Region. In …

A state-of-the-art review of the Cenozoic fossil record from Western Amazonia is provided,
based on literature and new data (regarding Paleogene native ungulates). It allows …

The gomphothere assemblage from the Pleistocene of Águas de Araxá (Minas Gerais State,
Brazil) is composed of several isolated teeth, cranial and postcranial fragments assigned to …

In the present study, the paleoecology (diet and niche width) of Late Quaternary
megamammals that inhabited the Brazilian Intertropical Region (BIR) was assessed at two …

Despite more than two centuries of study, the South American Gomphotheriidae (SAG)
taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography are still problematic. The current knowledge about …

The present contribution provides a review of the feeding paleoecology studies based on
carbon isotopic data available for 13 extinct megamammals that existed in South America …

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 …