Western Amazonia as a Hotspot of Mammalian Biodiversity Throughout the Cenozoic

2016/04/19 by Pierre‐Olivier Antoine, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi +4 · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · #Amazon rainforest #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Biodiversity #Biology #Cenozoic #Ecology #Eutheria #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Geography #Guild #Late Miocene #Mammal #Paleontology #Phanerozoic #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Taxon

paper · doi:10.1007/s10914-016-9333-1

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Citations

• Eocene primates of South America and the African origins of New World monkeys
• Implication of the presence ofMegathericulus(Xenarthra: Tardigrada: Megatheriidae) in the Laventan of Peruvian Amazonia
• A new species of tapir from the Amazon
• A new species ofScirrotheriumEdmund & Theodor, 1997 (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Pampatheriidae) from the late Miocene of South America
• Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography
• A new genus and species of nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Nothrotheriidae) from the Late Miocene (Huayquerian) of Peru
• Two new genera of peccaries (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from upper Miocene deposits of the Amazon Basin
• Paleogene Xenarthra and the evolution of South American mammals

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