Southern South America (SSA) has today a high diversity of climates, environments, biomes,
and biotas, as a result of the complex interaction through time of plants and animals with the …

Climate changes in southern South America and the Antarctic Peninsula during the Tertiary
show a strong correlation with ocean warming and cooling events, which are in turn related …

The concept of “land-mammal age” as developed in South America is examined. The
“Uquian Land-mammal age” is used as a study case.“Land-mammal age” parataxonomy is …

METHODS Seven species of xenarthrans (three glyptodonts and four ground sloths) and six
species of epitherians (one notoungulate, one litoptern, one perissodactyl, one …

Glyptodon Owen is one of the most frequently recorded glyptodonts in the Pleistocene of
South America, especially between 20° S and 38° S. A high specific diversity has …

Abstract The Monte Hermoso Formation, cropping out at its type locality of Farola Monte
Hermoso (Buenos Aires Province), is a classical fossiliferous unit of the South American …

The last important–and possibly the most spectacular–turnover in South American mammal
history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamam mal …

Because of the hundreds of individual bony scutes present in the carapace of each
individual armadillo, their fossilization potential is quite high, and the armadillos have an …

Three cingulates from the early Miocene Chucal Fauna of northern Chile (ca. 17.0–19 Ma;
Santacrucian SALMA) are described. A dasypodid, represented by isolated osteoderms, a …

New contributions to the systematic of Glyptodontia Ameghino 1889 (Mammalia, Xenarthra,
Cingulata). An exhaustive revision of the systematic of the glyptodonts, including different …