With their odd cranial features, glyptodonts, closely related to extant armadillos, are a highly
diverse group of the South American megafauna. Doedicurus, Glyptodon, Panochthus, and …

The debate regarding the evolutionary relationships of the extinct South American native
ungulates (SANUs) to the major placental clades Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria is exciting …

ABSTRACT A specimen of Toxodontidae from the upper Pliocene–lower Pleistocene of
Uruguay is studied in this paper. The material consists of associated skull and mandibular …

On the basis of selected osteological markers, Patterson identified two pathways (here
designated A and B) along which the internal carotid artery in notoungulates was said to …

The South American native ungulates (SANUs) are usually overlooked in Eutherian
phylogenetic studies. In the rare studies where they were included, the diversity of SANUs …

Although few nondental features of the osteocranium consistently discriminate marsupials
from placentals, the transverse canal foramen (TCF) has been repeatedly offered as a …

The Periptychidae, an extinct group of archaic ungulates ('condylarths'), were the most
speciose eutherian mammals in the earliest Paleocene of North America, epitomizing …

Abstract The Litopterna Ameghino 1889, is the second largest group of South American
native ungulates in abundance and diversity after Notoungulata. The study of digital …

South America underwent a span of isolation in the Cenozoic, during which an endemic
fauna developed, including a diverse group of native ungulates. Among them …

Records of the toxodontid Posnanskytherium were only known from the Pliocene levels of
the Bolivian Altiplano and southern Peru. Posnanskytherium desaguaderoi (type species) …