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 …

Mitogenomic phylogeny, diversification, and biogeography of South American spiny rats

PH Fabre, NS Upham, LH Emmons… - Molecular Biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Echimyidae is one of the most speciose and ecologically diverse rodent families in the
world, occupying a wide range of habitats in the Neotropics. However, a resolved phylogeny …

Origins, radiations, and distribution of South American mammals: from greenhouse to icehouse worlds

FJ Goin, JN Gelfo, L Chornogubsky… - Bones, clones, and …, 2012 - books.google.com
At least five successive phases in South American mammalian evolution can be envisaged,
the oldest one being largely hypothetical:(1) Early Gondwanan (? Late Triassic-Early …

Systematic revision of the vizcachas (Rodentia, Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) from the Chapadmalal Formation, late Pliocene of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

LL Rasia, AM Candela - Ameghiniana, 2017 - BioOne
Lagostomine rodents (Caviomorpha, Chinchillidae) are very abundant in late Cenozoic
vertebrate associations of the Pampean area but the study of their systematics has been …

The oldest Andean synorogenic fossiliferous deposits of the Miocene Cerro Azul Formation, central Argentina

CI Montalvo, A Folguera, E Cerdeño, DH Verzi… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cerro Patagua is a locality with fossiliferous outcrops of the Cerro Azul Formation in La
Pampa Province (central Argentina). First fossil remains were known in 1999 and assigned …

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 …

Description of a fetal skeleton of the extinct sloth Nothrotherium maquinense (Xenarthra, Folivora): Ontogenetic and palaeoecological interpretations

F Pujos, G De Iuliis, L Vilaboim Santos… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
A well-preserved fetus of the extinct nothrotheriid sloth Nothrotherium maquinense,
recovered in situ within the skeletal remains of its mother from the karstic cave Toca da Boa …

Los Chinchillidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) fósiles de la República Argentina: sistemática, historia evolutiva y biogeográfica, significado bioestratigráfico y …

LL Rasia - 2016 - sedici.unlp.edu.ar
Los roedores conforman el Orden más numeroso de mamíferos vivientes. Dentro de este
grupo, los caviomorfos representan un clado eminentemente sudamericano con una …

[PDF][PDF] Late middle Eocene caviomorph rodents from Contamana, Peruvian Amazonia

M Boivin, L Marivaux, MJ Orliac, F Pujos… - Palaeontologia …, 2017 - hal.umontpellier.fr
Caviomorph rodents represent one of the most successful groups of placental mammals
from South America. Despite their modern, Neogene and late Paleogene high diversity, their …

A paleogeographic overview of tropical fossil sloths: towards an understanding of the origin of extant suspensory sloths?

F Pujos, G De Iuliis, C Cartelle - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2017 - Springer
Modern sloths are among the more characteristic mammals of South and Central American
faunas. Recent discovery in four Paleogene, 22 Neogene, and dozens of Pleistocene …