Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade
Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed in all continents, except …

While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late
prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well …

Frogs (Anura) are nowadays common and abundant constituents of terrestrial and
freshwater ecosystems near globally and their fossil record shows that they were already …

Abstract A Late Holocene (ca. 3,100 to 380 BP) sample of the viscacha rat genus Octomys
(Octodontidae) from the Vaquerías Gruta 1 site (VQ-G1) in western Argentina is reported …

Abstract The Muaco and Taima-Taima sites, in Falcón State of northwestern Venezuela, are
among the earliest sites of human occupation in South America containing artifacts …

Proboscideans may have been important prey for Pleistocene foragers in the Americas.
Dozens of proboscidean sites have been claimed to show evidence of human involvement …

We present the results of the excavations and analyses of the diverse and exceptional
archaeological assemblage of Taguatagua 3, a new late Pleistocene site located in the …

This work describes the first record of a fossil anuran from the Neogene of Chile, found in
miocene outcrops of the Río Pedregoso Member of the Cura-Mallín Formation, near the …

Taguatagua 1 is a late Pleistocene open-air archaeological site located on an ancient
lakeshore in central Chile and dated to around 12,600 cal BP. It presents clear evidence of …

The first unequivocal records of teratornithid birds from the Pleistocene of South America are
here described, adding a new member, and the largest, to this highly diversified guild of …