Mexico's Pleistocene terrestrial mammal record includes 13 orders, 44 families, 147 genera
and 280 species, thus is comparable to the Recent one, but shows greater ordinal and …

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 …

Neotropical Biogeography: Regionalization and Evolution presents the most comprehensive
single-source treatment of the Neotropical region derived from evolutionary biogeographic …

The earliest known foragers to populate most of North America south of the glaciers [∼
11,500 to≥∼ 10,800 14C yBP;∼ 13,300 to∼ 12,800 calibrated (Cal) years] made …

Mammoths provide a detailed example of species origins and dispersal, but understanding
has been impeded by taxonomic confusion, especially in North America. The Columbian …

Despite more than two centuries of study, the South American Gomphotheriidae (SAG)
taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography are still problematic. The current knowledge about …

Fossils of proboscideans from Central America are assigned to four genera:
Gomphotherium, Cuvieronius, Mammut and Mammuthus. Previous reports of …

The taxonomic history of South American Gomphotheriidae is very complex and
controversial. Three species are currently recognized: Amahuacatherium peruvium …

Analysis of the overall fossil record for specific regions in order to examine paleobiological
data requires assembling enormous amounts of information in databases. Geoinformatics …

The contemporary mammalian communities of South America were defined by the rise of the
Isthmus of Panama and by the deep climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene …