Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

▪ Abstract A rich fossil record documents nonmammalian evolution. In recent years, the
application of cladistic methodology has shed valuable light on the relationships within the …

Abstract The Paraná Basin was filled by a sedimentary package deposited in successive
sedimentation episodes related to the tectonic events that hit the SW portion of the …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

Abstract Fossil discoveries from South Africa have greatly expanded knowledge of the
development of life on Earth. In particular, the enormous palaeontological wealth of the …

The Rosário do Sul Group is one of the better-known tetrapod-bearing continental deposits
of Triassic age. It crops out in central Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil, and has yielded a …

Cynodonts are an important component of Triassic tetrapod faunas and are frequently one of
the dominant groups. A summary of their record during the Triassic of Gondwana is …

The evolutionary transition from early synapsids to therian mammals involved profound
reorganization in locomotor anatomy and function, centered around a shift from “sprawled” …

The enigmatic concretionary exposures that typify the Chañares Formation (Ladinian,
northwestern Argentina) long have defied precise paleoenvironmental characterization …

Ichnological evidence suggests that dinosauromorphs originated by the Early Triassic, and
skeletal remains of non-dinosaur representatives of the clade occur from the Anisian to the …