[HTML][HTML] Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials

RMD Beck, RS Voss, SA Jansa - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2022 - BioOne
The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Paleoenvironments and paleoecology of the Santa Cruz Formation (early-middle Miocene) along the Río Santa Cruz, Patagonia (Argentina)

RF Kay, SF Vizcaíno, MS Bargo, JP Spradley… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
The continental early-middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation (SCF) in Austral Patagonia
contains the best record of South American mammalian faunas prior to the Great American …

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 …

Diversity and phylogeny of marsupials and their stem relatives (Metatheria)

RMD Beck - American and Australasian Marsupials: An …, 2023 - Springer
The diversity and phylogeny of marsupials and their stem relatives (collectively, Metatheria)
are reviewed, from their divergence from their sister taxon (Eutheria) and the earliest fossil …

The physiological ecology of the enigmatic colocolo opossum, the Monito del Monte (genus Dromiciops), and its role as a bioindicator of the broadleaf biome

RF Nespolo, P Sáenz-Agudelo, C Mejías… - 2022 - books.rsc.org
The discovery of living representatives of extinct groups previously known only as fossil
remnants is interesting for several reasons. Darwin called them ''living fossils''(''these …

Mind the gap: new records of Caenolestes in the Western Andes of Colombia challenge its current biogeographic patterns

B González, N Ferro-Muñoz… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The genus Caenolestes is the most species-rich of the marsupial order Paucituberculata.
Two species inhabit Colombia (and also occur in Ecuador) with a discontinuous distribution …

Taxonomy and diversity of living American marsupials

P Teta, MA Chemisquy, G Martin - American and Australasian marsupials …, 2022 - Springer
New World marsupials belong to three different orders: Didelphimorphia, Microbiotheria,
and Paucituberculata. Didelphimorphia is one of the most speciose and successful …

Molar crown morphometrics in Paucituberculata (Mammalia: Marsupialia)

J Scarlino, N Toledo, MA Abello - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The Paucituberculata are a group of marsupials endemic to South America, recorded from
the Early Eocene to the present. In terms of taxonomy and qualitative morphology …

Cenozoic South American Metatherians (Mammalia, Theria) as Indicators of Climate–Environmental Changes

FJ Goin, G Martin - 2022 - books.rsc.org
Cenozoic South American Metatherians (Mammalia, Theria) as Indicators of Climate–Environmental
Changes | Marsupial and Placental Mammal Species in Environmental Risk Assessment …

New metatherians from Collon Cura Formation at Cerro Zeballos (Middle Miocene), Chubut province, Argentina

GM Martin, NM Novo, LR González Ruiz… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
High latitude metatherians from the Middle Miocene of Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) are
only known from medium-sized Sparassodonta, and undescribed taxa collected in several …