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 …

By their past and present diversity, rodents are among the richest components of Caribbean
land mammals. Many of these became extinct recently. Causes of their extirpation, their …

Abstract The Cerro Azul Formation, mainly extended in the center and east of La Pampa
Province (Argentina), has provided interesting late Miocene faunal assemblages mostly …

Rodents are the most diverse order of extant mammals, and caviomorph rodents, or New
World hystricognaths, have a remarkable morphological disparity and a long fossil record …

Les rongeurs caviomorphes constituent l'un des groupes de mammifères placentaires les
plus diversifiés d'Amérique du Sud. Malgré la grande diversité taxonomique actuelle et un …

The fossiliferous beds of the Solimões Formation, western Brazilian Amazon have yielded
several vertebrate fossils that are key to understand the evolution of Neotropical biotas …

ABSTRACT The Miocene deposits of South America are notable for their diverse
crocodyliform fauna, of which the giant caimanine Purussaurus is a well-known example …

Chinchilloidea are a clade of caviomorph rodents that includes seven living species, the
Dinomyidae Dinomys branickii, the Chinchillidae Lagostomus maximus, two species of …

Dinomyidae is a clade of caviomorph rodents that include medium to gigantic forms. They
are represented by a single living species, Dinomys branickii, distributed from Venezuela to …

Caviomorph rodents constitute a highly diverse clade of Neotropical mammals. They are
recorded since at least the late Middle Eocene and have a long and complex evolutionary …