Late cenozoic glaciations in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

J Rabassa - Developments in quaternary sciences, 2008 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter overviews the Patagonian and Fuegian glaciations—
starting in the Late Miocene, when the junction of global, cooler climatic conditions, and the …

Splendid innovation: the extinct South American native ungulates

DA Croft, JN Gelfo, GM López - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
A remarkable diversity of plant-eating mammals known as South American native ungulates
(SANUs) flourished in South America for most of the Cenozoic. Although some of these …

The placental mammal ancestor and the post–K-Pg radiation of placentals

MA O'Leary, JI Bloch, JJ Flynn, TJ Gaudin… - science, 2013 - science.org
To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

Paleoenvironmental evolution of southern South America during the Cenozoic

E Ortiz-Jaureguizar, GA Cladera - Journal of Arid Environments, 2006 - Elsevier
Southern South America (SSA) has today a high diversity of climates, environments, biomes,
and biotas, as a result of the complex interaction through time of plants and animals with the …

[图书][B] Historical biogeography: an introduction

JV Crisci, L Katinas, P Posadas - 2003 - books.google.com
Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of
organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific …

Chronology of the Late Cenozoic Patagonian glaciations and their correlation with biostratigraphic units of the Pampean region (Argentina)

J Rabassa, AM Coronato, M Salemme - Journal of South American Earth …, 2005 - Elsevier
The absolute chronology of the Patagonian glaciations is one of the most complete in the
world and probably the best available for the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctica. The …

Paleogene land mammal faunas of South America; a response to global climatic changes and indigenous floral diversity

MO Woodburne, FJ Goin, M Bond, AA Carlini… - Journal of mammalian …, 2014 - Springer
An appraisal of Paleogene floral and land mammal faunal dynamics in South America
suggests that both biotic elements responded at rate and extent generally comparable to …

New radiometric 40Ar–39Ar dates and faunistic analyses refine evolutionary dynamics of Neogene vertebrate assemblages in southern South America

FJ Prevosti, CO Romano, AM Forasiepi, S Hemming… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The vertebrate fossil record of the Pampean Region of Argentina occupies an important
place in South American vertebrate paleontology. An abundance of localities has long been …

The Tinguiririca fauna, Chile: Biochronology, paleoecology, biogeography, and a new earliest Oligocene South American land mammal 'age'

JJ Flynn, AR Wyss, DA Croft, R Charrier - Palaeogeography …, 2003 - Elsevier
A new South American Land Mammal 'Age'(SALMA), the Tinguirirican, is formally
established, based on an assemblage of at least 25 taxa from the Chilean Andes (and …

[图书][B] Megafauna: giant beasts of pleistocene South America

RA Fariña, SF Vizcaíno, G De Iuliis - 2013 - books.google.com
“An enjoyable read that provides a substantial amount of detail on the biology, ecology, and
distribution of these fantastic animals... Highly recommended.”—Choice More than 10,000 …