[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem

JP Rio, PD Mannion - PeerJ, 2021‏ - peerj.com
First appearing in the latest Cretaceous, Crocodylia is a clade of semi-aquatic, predatory
reptiles, defined by the last common ancestor of extant alligators, caimans, crocodiles, and …

Sixty years after 'The mastodonts of Brazil': The state of the art of South American proboscideans (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae)

D Mothé, L dos Santos Avilla, L Asevedo… - Quaternary …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Studies on South American Gomphotheriidae started around 210 years ago and,
150 years later, the classic study “The mastodonts of Brazil” by Simpson and Paula Couto …

Ecological history and latent conservation potential: large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions

DM Hansen, CJ Donlan, CJ Griffiths, KJ Campbell - Ecography, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Starting in the late 1970s, ecologists began unraveling the role of recently extinct large
vertebrates in evolutionary ecology and ecosystem dynamics. Three decades later …

Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians

AGJ Rhodin, S Thomson, GL Georgalis, HV Karl… - 2015‏ - ri.conicet.gov.ar
We provide a first checklist and review of all recognized taxa of the world's extinct
Pleistocene and Holocene (Quaternary) turtles and tortoises that existed during the early …

A synthetic approach for assessing the interplay of form and function in the crocodyliform snout

SK Drumheller, EW Wilberg - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Existing classifications of snout shape within Crocodylia are supported by functional studies,
but ecological surveys often reveal a higher than expected diversity of prey items within …

Systematics and biogeography of crocodylians from the Miocene of Panama

AK Hastings, JI Bloch, CA Jaramillo… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2013‏ - Taylor & Francis
Despite the fact that fossil crocodylians have been recovered from the Panama Canal Zone
starting with initial excavations in 1912, detailed studies have been lacking. Recent …

Mythbusting evolutionary issues on South American gomphotheriidae (mammalia: proboscidea)

D Mothé, L Avilla - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Despite more than two centuries of study, the South American Gomphotheriidae (SAG)
taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography are still problematic. The current knowledge about …

[PDF][PDF] Fossil Proboscidea from the upper Cenozoic of Central America: Taxonomy, evolutionary and paleobiogeographic significance

SG Lucas, GE Alvarado - Revista Geológica de América Central, 2010‏ - redalyc.org
Fossils of proboscideans from Central America are assigned to four genera:
Gomphotherium, Cuvieronius, Mammut and Mammuthus. Previous reports of …

[HTML][HTML] Ostracods (Crustacea) and their palaeoenvironmental implication for the Solimões Formation (late Miocene; western Amazonia/Brazil)

M Gross, MI Ramos, M Caporaletti, WE Piller - Journal of South American …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Western Amazonia's landscape and biota were shaped by an enormous wetland during the
Miocene epoch. Among the most discussed topics of this ecosystem range the question on …

North American Glyptodontines (Xenarthra, Mammalia) in the Upper Pleistocene of northern South America

AA Carlini, AE Zurita, OA Aguilera - Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2008‏ - Springer
The Glyptodontidae is one of the most conspicuous groups in the Pleistocene megafauna of
the Americas. The Glyptodontinae were involved in the Great American Biotic Interchange …