Extinction of South American sparassodontans (Metatheria): environmental fluctuations or complex ecological processes?

A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

(2016) Pierre-Olivier Antoine et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Western Amazonia as a Hotspot of Mammalian Biodiversity Throughout the Cenozoic

(2016) Pierre-Olivier Antoine et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange

(2016) Jonathan I. Bloch et al.   NATURE

Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the Cocinetas Basin (La Guajira, Colombia): implications for the Great American Biotic Interchange

(2016) Eli Amson et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

(2016) A. ODea et al.   Science Advances

Early to Middle Miocene Turtles from the Northernmost Tip of South America: Giant Testudinids, Chelids, and Podocnemidids from the Castilletes Formation, Colombia

(2015) Edwin Cadena et al.   AMEGHINIANA

New Specimens ofAcyon myctoderos(Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia

(2015) Russell K. Engelman et al.   AMEGHINIANA

New Notoungulates (Notostylopidae and Basal Toxodontians) from the Early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the Andean Main Range, Central Chile

(2015) Jennifer Bradham et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Muscular reconstruction and functional morphology of the hind limb of santacrucian (Early Miocene) sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) of Patagonia

(2015) Néstor Toledo et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

New fossil bird remains from the Chichinales Formation (Early Miocene) of northern Patagonia, Argentina

(2015) Federico L. Agnolin et al.   ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE

Paleogene Xenarthra and the evolution of South American mammals

(2015) Timothy J. Gaudin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Xenarthran dental microstructure and dental microwear analyses, with new data forMegatherium americanum(Megatheriidae)

(2015) Jeremy L. Green et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

A new Mesembriornithinae (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) provides new insights into the phylogeny and sensory capabilities of terror birds

(2015) Federico J. Degrange et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

New early Miocene protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama

(2015) Aldo F. Rincon et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Hilarcotherium castanedaii, gen. et sp. nov., a new Miocene astrapothere (Mammalia, Astrapotheriidae) from the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia

(2015) M. C. Vallejo-Pareja et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia

(2015) Catalina Suarez et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Masseter moment arm as a dietary proxy in herbivorous ungulates

(2015) L. Varela et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Biogeography in deep time – What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution?

(2015) Richard F. Kay   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Eocene primates of South America and the African origins of New World monkeys

(2015) Mariano Bond et al.   NATURE

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

(2015) Frido Welker et al.   NATURE

Life in proto-Amazonia: Middle Miocene mammals from the Fitzcarrald Arch (Peruvian Amazonia)

(2015) Julia V. Tejada-Lara et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The future of the fossil record: Paleontology in the 21st century

(2015) David Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals

(2015) Joanna Baker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

(2015) Christine D. Bacon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pleistocene megafaunal interaction networks became more vulnerable after human arrival

(2015) Mathias M. Pires et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Middle Miocene closure of the Central American Seaway

(2015) C. Montes et al.   SCIENCE

Cranial and mandibular shape variation in the genusCarollia(Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Colombia: biogeographic patterns and morphological modularity

(2015) Camilo López-Aguirre et al.   PeerJ

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

(2015) Juan D. Carrillo et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Preface: La Guajira, Colombia: a new window into the Cenozoic neotropical biodiversity and the Great American Biotic Interchange

(2015) C. Jaramillo et al.   Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

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

(2015) F. Moreno et al.   Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Neogene molluscs, shallow marine paleoenvironments, and chronostratigraphy of the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia

(2015) Austin J. W. Hendy et al.   Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

lavaan: AnRPackage for Structural Equation Modeling

(2015) Yves Rosseel   Journal of Statistical Software

Estimación de Masa de las Especies de Sparassodonta (Mammalia, Metatheria) de Edad Santacrucense (Mioceno Temprano) a Partir del Tamaño del Centroide de los Elementos Apendiculares: Inferencias Paleoecológicas

(2014) Marcos Darío Ercoli et al.   AMEGHINIANA

Skull Geometric Morphometrics and Paleoecology of Santacrucian (Late Early Miocene; Patagonia) Native Ungulates (Astrapotheria, Litopterna, and Notoungulata)

(2014) Guillermo H. Cassini   AMEGHINIANA

Systematics ofVampyressa melissaThomas, 1926 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species ofVampyressa

(2014) Valéria Da C. Tavares et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Linking Indices for Biodiversity Monitoring to Extinction Risk Theory

(2014) MICHAEL A. MCCARTHY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A New Carodnia Simpson, 1935 (Mammalia, Xenungulata) from the Early Eocene of Northwestern Peru and a Phylogeny of Xenungulates at Species Level

(2014) Pierre-Olivier Antoine et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Avoiding Competition: the Ecological History of Late Cenozoic Metatherian Carnivores in South America

(2014) Natalia Zimicz   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

New Late Miocene Dromomerycine Artiodactyl from the Amazon Basin: Implications for Interchange Dynamics

(2014) Donald R. Prothero et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Revised timing of the South American early Paleogene land mammal ages

(2014) Michael O. Woodburne et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Australohyaena antiqua(Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta), a large predator from the Late Oligocene of Patagonia

(2014) Analía M. Forasiepi et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

A new early Miocene octodontoid rodent (Hystricognathi, Caviomorpha) from Patagonia (Argentina) and a reassessment of the early evolution of Octodontoidea

(2014) Michelle Arnal et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A new species of small-bodied sparassodont (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the middle Miocene locality of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia

(2014) Russell K. Engelman et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals

(2014) Pamela G. Gill et al.   NATURE

Carnivorans at the Great American Biotic Interchange: new discoveries from the northern neotropics

(2014) Analia M. Forasiepi et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Integrating Incomplete Fossils by Isolating Conflicting Signal in Saturated and Non-Independent Morphological Characters

(2014) Liliana M. Dávalos et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic measures of biodiversity and neo- and paleo-endemism in Australian Acacia

(2014) Brent D. Mishler et al.   Nature Communications

Historical biogeography of the Isthmus of Panama

(2013) Egbert G. Leigh et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Transitions between Andean and Amazonian centers of endemism in the radiation of some arboreal rodents

(2013) Nathan S Upham et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Stable isotope evidence for multiple pulses of rapid surface uplift in the Central Andes, Bolivia

(2013) Andrew Leier et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages

(2013) Sébastien Villéger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global patterns of phylogenetic beta diversity components in bats

(2013) Franciele P. Peixoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Structure of the Mammalian Predator Guild in the Santa Cruz Formation (Late Early Miocene)

(2013) Marcos D. Ercoli et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Paleogene Land Mammal Faunas of South America; a Response to Global Climatic Changes and Indigenous Floral Diversity

(2013) Michael O. Woodburne et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene) at its type locality, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

(2013) Rodrigo L. Tomassini et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Diversification of the Yellow-shouldered bats, Genus Sturnira (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), in the New World tropics

(2013) Paúl M. Velazco et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comparative Biomechanical Modeling of Metatherian and Placental Saber-Tooths: A Different Kind of Bite for an Extreme Pouched Predator

(2013) Stephen Wroe et al.   PLoS One

Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito

(2013) Kristofer M. Helgen et al.   ZooKeys

Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics

(2013) T. M. Scheyer et al.   Nature Communications

Decoupling the spread of grasslands from the evolution of grazer-type herbivores in South America

(2013) Caroline A.E. Strömberg et al.   Nature Communications

Separating the two components of abundance-based dissimilarity: balanced changes in abundance vs. abundance gradients

(2013) Andrés Baselga   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The link between dental microwear and feeding ecology in tree sloths and armadillos (Mammalia: Xenarthra)

(2012) Jeremy L. Green et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A new chronology for middle Eocene-early Miocene South American Land Mammal Ages

(2012) R. E. Dunn et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: Implications for Isthmus closure

(2012) C. Montes et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

(2012) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Middle Miocene vertebrates from the Amazonian Madre de Dios Subandean Zone, Perú

(2012) Pierre-Olivier Antoine et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Body mass estimation in Early Miocene native South American ungulates: a predictive equation based on 3D landmarks

(2012) G. H. Cassini et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Form and function within a phylogenetic framework: locomotory habits of extant predators and some Miocene Sparassodonta (Metatheria)

(2012) MARCOS DARÍO ERCOLI et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Determining the relative roles of species replacement and species richness differences in generating beta-diversity patterns

(2011) José C. Carvalho et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Colonizing the Caribbean: is the GAARlandia land-bridge hypothesis gaining a foothold?

(2011) Jason R. Ali   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

An Approach to the Biomechanics of the Masticatory Apparatus of Early Miocene (Santacrucian Age) South American Ungulates (Astrapotheria, Litopterna, and Notoungulata): Moment Arm Estimation Based on 3D Landmarks

(2011) Guillermo H. Cassini et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

The Evolution of the Cenozoic Terrestrial Mammalian Predator Guild in South America: Competition or Replacement?

(2011) Francisco J. Prevosti et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of the Notoungulata (Mammalia) based on cranial and dental characters

(2011) Guillaume Billet   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Mio-Pliocene Faunal Exchanges and African Biogeography: The Record of Fossil Bovids

(2011) Faysal Bibi   PLoS One

Cenozoic climate change influences mammalian evolutionary dynamics

(2011) B. Figueirido et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography

(2011) P.-O. Antoine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Great American Biotic Interchange: Dispersals, Tectonics, Climate, Sea Level and Holding Pens

(2010) Michael O. Woodburne   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Inferring habitat and feeding behaviour of early Miocene notoungulates from Patagonia

(2010) GUILLERMO H. CASSINI et al.   LETHAIA

Biting through constraints: cranial morphology, disparity and convergence across living and fossil carnivorous mammals

(2010) A. Goswami et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals

(2010) F. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

(2010) E. Thebault et al.   SCIENCE

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Occasional intraguild predation structuring small mammal assemblages: the marsupialDidelphis auritain the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

(2009) MAÍRA C. MOURA et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Environmental drivers of beta-diversity patterns in New-World birds and mammals

(2009) Adriano S. Melo et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global Sensitivity Analysis Techniques for Probabilistic Ground Water Modeling

(2009) Srikanta Mishra et al.   Groundwater

Global Completeness of the Bat Fossil Record

(2009) Thomas P. Eiting et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures

(2009) Jason J. Head et al.   NATURE

Dental microwear analysis of notoungulates (Mammalia) from Salla (Late Oligocene, Bolivia) and discussion on their precocious hypsodonty

(2009) Guillaume Billet et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit and species turnover

(2009) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time

(2008) Catherine H. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cascading effects of predator richness

(2008) John F Bruno et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Phylogenetic Affinities of the Enigmatic Mammalian Clade Gondwanatheria

(2008) Yamila Gurovich et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

A new Xenungulata (Mammalia) from the Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina

(2008) Javier N. Gelfo et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A methodology for performing global uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in systems biology

(2008) Simeone Marino et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Diets of notoungulates from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina: new evidence from enamel microwear

(2008) K. E. Beth Townsend et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

The first application of the mesowear method to endemic South American ungulates (Notoungulata)

(2008) Darin A. Croft et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Rise of the Andes

(2008) C. N. Garzione et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of reliable regression- and correlation-based sensitivity measures for importance ranking of water-quality model parameters

(2007) Gemma Manache et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

The anatomy of Dolichocebus gaimanensis, a stem platyrrhine monkey from Argentina

(2007) Richard F. Kay et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION