Publications

Varela, Fariña (2025). First 87Sr/86Sr isotope data for the extinct sloth Lestodon armatus: insights into the spatial ecology of South American Late Pleistocene megafauna. Proceedings B.

Varela, Tambusso, Fariña (2024). Femora nutrient foramina and aerobic capacity in giant extinct xenarthrans. PeerJ.

Varela, Martínez-Blanco, Ugalde, Tambusso, Lobato, Gaucher, Fariña (2023). Late Miocene mammalian burrows in the Camacho Formation of Uruguay reveal a complex community of ecosystem engineers. Evolving Earth.

Varela, Clavijo, Tambusso, Fariña (2023). A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay). Quaternary Science Reviews.

Varela, Tambusso, McDonald, Vezzosi, Fariña (2023). Occurrence of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops (Xenarthra, Folivora) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay: new information on its dietary and habitat preferences based on stable isotope analysis. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

Varela, Tambusso, Zerpa, McAfee, Fariña (2023). 3D finite element analysis and geometric morphometrics of sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) mandibles show insights on the dietary specializations of fossil taxa. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Tamagnini, Michaud, Meloro, Raia, Soibelzon, Tambusso, Varela, Maiorano (2023). Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry. Scientific Reports.

Fariña, Beri, Varela (2023). Biological Diversity in Deep Time. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 3rd Edition.

Baleka, Varela, Tambusso, Paijmans, Mothé, Stafford, Fariña, Hofreiter (2022). Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA. iScience.

Varela, McDonald, Fariña (2022). Sexual dimorphism in the fossil ground sloth Lestodon armatus (Xenarthra, Folivora). Historical Biology.

Fariña, Tambusso, Varela, Gascue, Stafford (2022). Hard Facts in an Imperfect Site: The Evidence of Human Presence in the Arroyo del Vizcaíno. Reply to Holcomb et al. PaleoAmerica.

Lobato, Varela, Tambusso, Miño-Boilini, Clavijo, Fariña (2021). Presence of the ground sloth Valgipes bucklandi (Xenarthra, Folivora, Scelidotheriinae) in southern Uruguay during the Late Pleistocene: Ecological and biogeographical implications. Quaternary International.

Domínguez-Rodrigo, Baquedano, Varela, Tambusso, Melián, Fariña (2021). Deep classification of cut-marks on bones from Arroyo del Vizcaíno (Uruguay). Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Fariña, Tambusso, Varela, Velazco, Di Giacomo, Gascue (2021). Arroyo del Vizcaíno: Strengths and weaknesses of a very old archaeological/paleontological site in Uruguay, South America. New Discoveries in the American Paleolithic: The Pre-16,000 Archaeological Record.

Tambusso, Varela, Góis, Moura, Villa, Fariña (2021). The inner ear anatomy of glyptodonts and pampatheres (Xenarthra, Cingulata): Functional and phylogenetic implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Di Giacomo, Batallés, Varela, Tambusso, Clavijo, Fariña (2020). Keeping old giants at the service of a local community: The Arroyo del Vizcaíno collection (Sauce, Uruguay). Geological Curator.

Varela, Tambusso, Fariña (2020). Unexpected inhibitory cascade in the molariforms of sloths (Folivora, Xenarthra). Fossil Imprint.

Beri, Martínez-Blanco, Varela, di Pasquo, de Souza (2020). Sampling biases and Paleozoic sporomorphs diversity dynamics in Western Gondwana strata. Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

Varela, Tambusso, McDonald, Fariña (2019). Phylogeny, macroevolutionary trends and historical biogeography of sloths: insights from a Bayesian morphological clock analysis. Systematic Biology.

Fariña, Varela (2018). Comment on “Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina” by H. Bocherens et al. Gondwana Research.

Tambusso, Varela, McDonald (2018). Fusion of anterior thoracic vertebrae in Pleistocene ground sloths. Historical Biology.

Varela, Tambusso, Patiño, Di Giacomo, Fariña (2017). Potential distribution of fossil xenarthrans in South America during the Late Pleistocene: Co-Occurrence and provincialism. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

Varela, Fariña (2016). Co-occurrence of mylodontid sloths and insights on their potential distributions during the late Pleistocene. Quaternary Research.

Varela, Fariña (2015). Masseter moment arm as a dietary proxy in herbivorous ungulates. Journal of Zoology.

Buckley, Fariña, Lawless, Tambusso, Varela, Carlini, Martinez (2015). Collagen sequence analysis of the extinct giant ground sloths Lestodon and Megatherium. PloSone.

Fariña, Tambusso, Varela, Czerwonogora, Di Giacomo, Musso, Bracco, Gascue (2014). Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay: a fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Fariña, Tambusso, Varela, Di Giacomo, Musso, Gascue, Bracco (2014). Among others, cut-marks are archaeological evidence: reply to ‘Archaeological evidences are still missing: a comment on Fariña et al. Arroyo del Vizcaíno Site, Uruguay’ by Suárez et al.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.