The Late Miocene paleogeography of the Amazon Basin and the evolution of the Amazon River system

EM Latrubesse, M Cozzuol, SAF da Silva-Caminha… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
On the basis of paleontological content (vertebrates and palynology) and facies analysis
from river banks, road cuts, and three wells, we have assigned the uppermost levels of the …

Neotropical mammal diversity and the Great American Biotic Interchange: spatial and temporal variation in South America's fossil record

JD Carrillo, A Forasiepi, C Jaramillo… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The vast mammal diversity of the Neotropics is the result of a long evolutionary history.
During most of the Cenozoic, South America was an island continent with an endemic …

[图书][B] Amazonia: landscape and species evolution: a look into the past

C Hoorn, F Wesselingh - 2011 - books.google.com
The book focuses on geological history as the critical factor in determining the present
biodiversity and landscapes of Amazonia. The different driving mechanisms for landscape …

The Acre vertebrate fauna: age, diversity, and geography

MA Cozzuol - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2006 - Elsevier
The vertebrate faunal assemblage associated with the Neogene deposits in the Acre region
(southwestern Amazonia) is secured as Late Miocene on the basis of a correlation with the …

Late Miocene continental sedimentation in southwestern Amazonia and its regional significance: Biotic and geological evidence

EM Latrubesse, SAF da Silva, M Cozzuol… - Journal of South American …, 2007 - Elsevier
Fossil content (vertebrate paleofauna and palynology) indicates that the sediments of the
Solimões Formation in Acre (SW Brazilian Amazonia) are continental, having been …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Application of herbivore ecometrics to reconstruct Neogene terrestrial palaeoenvironments in Falcón, Venezuela

OE Wilson, R Sánchez, E Chávez-Aponte… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite its important position close to the Isthmus of Panama, and abundance of fossil
localities, the palaeoenvironment of the Falcón Basin in northwestern Venezuela has been …

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 …

Revised stratigraphy of Neogene strata in the Cocinetas basin, La Guajira, Colombia

F Moreno, AJW Hendy, L Quiroz, N Hoyos… - Swiss Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The Cocinetas Basin of Colombia provides a valuable window into the geological
and paleontological history of northern South America during the Neogene. Two major …

Exceptional skull of Huayqueriana (Mammalia, Litopterna, Macraucheniidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina: anatomy, systematics, and paleobiological …

AM Forasiepi, RDE MacPhee, SH Del Pino… - Bulletin of the American …, 2016 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The Huayquerías Formation (Late Miocene, Huayquerian SALMA) is broadly
exposed in west-central Argentina (Mendoza). The target of several major paleontological …