Geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin

CME Alsbach… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin on Earth and contains a wide variety of abiotic
landscape features. In spite of this, the geodiversity in this basin has not yet been objectively …

Late Miocene mammals from the Calchaquí Valley (Palo Pintado Formation, northwestern Argentina): Biogeographic and paleoenvironmental implications for the …

AM Candela, CI Galli, LL Rasia, D Voglino… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
With noteworthy outcrops in the Angastaco Basin (Salta Province), the Palo Pintado
Formation is perhaps one of the most intensely studied late Miocene stratigraphical unit of …

Late middle Miocene Metatheria (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata) from Juan Guerra, San Martín Department, Peruvian Amazonia

NS Stutz, MA Abello, L Marivaux, M Boivin… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, marsupials (modern members of the Metatheria clade) are widely distributed in
tropical and subtropical areas of South America, but poorly represented in the fossil record …

Postcranial Morphology of the Extinct Rodent Neoepiblema (Rodentia: Chinchilloidea): Insights Into the Paleobiology of Neoepiblemids

L Kerber, AM Candela, JD Ferreira, FA Pretto… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we study the postcranial morphology (humerus, ulna, innominate, femur, tibia,
astragalus, navicular, and metatarsal III) of Neoepiblema, a giant Late Miocene South …

New Neogene index pollen and spore taxa from the Solimões Basin (western Amazonia), Brazil

FPR Leite, SAF Silva-Caminha, C D'Apolito - Palynology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In western Amazonia, palynology has been the main source of chronological information for
the Neogene Period. The Solimões Formation in northwestern Brazil has hundreds of …

Body size estimation of Caimaninae specimens from the Miocene of South America

ALS Paiva, PL Godoy, RBB Souza, W Klein… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
Living crocodylians are frequently regarded as morphologically and ecologically
conservative, contrasting with the group's rich fossil record, which reveals a much higher …

A palynological zonation for the Neogene of the Solimões/Amazon basin, northwestern Amazonia

CA Jaramillo, C D'Apolito, SAF Silva-Caminha… - …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The tropical rainforests of northwestern Amazonia possess the highest plant diversity of any
biome in the world. Understanding their origin, development, maintenance, and future in the …

[HTML][HTML] Palynology of core 1-AS-20-AM from the Miocene and Quaternary of western Amazonia

C D'Apolito, SAF Silva-Caminha, C Jaramillo - Acta Palaeobotanica, 2024 - acpa.botany.pl
The western Amazon landscapes evolved during the Neogene–Quaternary in response to
the effects of the Andean orogeny and dynamic topography. During the Miocene …

Re-investigating Miocene age control and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in western Amazonia (northwestern Solimões Basin, Brazil)

AK Kern, M Gross, CP Galeazzi, FN Pupim… - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
The modern Amazonian rainforest has a great fascination and global significance, but our
knowledge of past landscape changes is still limited due to sparse data and the lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and Chemical Composition of ca. 10-Million-Year-Old (Late Miocene of Western Amazon) and Present-Day Teeth of Related Species

C Pessoa-Lima, J Tostes-Figueiredo… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The dental enamel is the most mineralized tissue of vertebrates, and its
preservation in fossil records is important to better understand the ancient life and …