Mountain building in the Andes, the longest continental mountain range on Earth, started in
the Late Cretaceous but was highly diachronous. Reconstructing the timing of surface uplift …

The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during
which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in …

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 …

Vegetation structure is a key determinant of ecosystems and ecosystem function, but
paleoecological techniques to quantify it are lacking. We present a method for reconstructing …

The evolution of high-crowned cheek teeth (hypsodonty) in herbivorous mammals during the
late Cenozoic is classically regarded as an adaptive response to the near-global spread of …

This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians,
including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic …

A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …

Echimyidae is one of the most speciose and ecologically diverse rodent families in the
world, occupying a wide range of habitats in the Neotropics. However, a resolved phylogeny …

There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New
World monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have …

Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …