Touro Passo Creek is one of the most important fossiliferous late Pleistocene localities from
southern Brazil. Although fossil vertebrates collected from this locality have been studied …

Prehistoric and recent extinctions of large-bodied terrestrial herbivores had significant and
lasting impacts on Earth's ecosystems due to the loss of their distinct trait combinations. The …

Tayassuidae is a family of pig-like Artiodactyla restricted to the New World. Despite its rich
fossil history, they have received less attention from a taxonomic and phylogenetic …

Gruta do Ioiô is a cave part of Iraquara carstic system (Salitre Formation, Una Group).
Located in the region of the Chapada Diamantina, northeastern Brazil, this partially …

Abstract All known Pleistocene South American fossil ursids belong to Arctotherium, an
extinct genus of tremarctine bears. Its occurrence encompasses many countries in Central …

The earliest record of North American mammals in South America is significant for
constraining the timing of intercontinental faunal interchange. At present, the oldest securely …

Quaternary mammals from Touro Passo Formation (southern Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul
State) were studied in the 1970s and assigned to the Pleistocene/Holocene transition …

Tayassuidae represent one of the first mammalian immigrants that entered South America
during the “Great American Biotic Interchange.” However, the exact moment of its arrival for …

Two new, extinct taxa of peccaries from upper Miocene deposits of the western Amazon
Basin provide the first data documenting the presence of these North American mammals in …

The study of two caves from the Serra do Ramalho region is here presented, this is one of
the most important karstic areas in Brazil. A taxonomic analysis revealed 29 taxa including …