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First 87Sr/86Sr isotope data for the extinct sloth Lestodon armatus: insights into the spatial ecology of South American Late Pleistocene megafauna
Understanding the role of megamammals in shaping terrestrial ecosystems and landscapes during the South American Late Pleistocene is …
Varela, Fariña
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First 87Sr/86Sr isotope data for the extinct sloth Lestodon armatus: insights into the spatial ecology of South American Late Pleistocene megafauna
Femora nutrient foramina and aerobic capacity in giant extinct xenarthrans
Nutrient foramina are small openings in the periosteal surface of the mid-shaft region of long bones that traverse the cortical layer …
Varela, Tambusso, Fariña
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Femora nutrient foramina and aerobic capacity in giant extinct xenarthrans
Late Miocene mammalian burrows in the Camacho Formation of Uruguay reveal a complex community of ecosystem engineers
We report fossil mammal burrows from backshore beach facies in the Camacho Formation of southern Uruguay, of Late Miocene (Huayquerian …
Varela, Martínez-Blanco, Ugalde, Tambusso, Lobato, Gaucher, Fariña
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Late Miocene mammalian burrows in the Camacho Formation of Uruguay reveal a complex community of ecosystem engineers
A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay)
The analysis of stable isotopes on fossil mammals has become a widely used tool for understanding the paleoecology and paleodiet of …
Varela, Clavijo, Tambusso, Fariña
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A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay)
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
Sloths represent one of the most successful South American clades that reached North America during the Great American Biotic …
Varela, Tambusso, McDonald, Vezzosi, Fariña
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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
3D finite element analysis and geometric morphometrics of sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) mandibles show insights on the dietary specializations of fossil taxa
Sloths are represented today only by two distantly-related small, arboreal, and folivorous genera. However, the fossil record of the …
Varela, Tambusso, Zerpa, McAfee, Fariña
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3D finite element analysis and geometric morphometrics of sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) mandibles show insights on the dietary specializations of fossil taxa
Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry
Among evolutionary trends shaping phenotypic diversity over macroevolutionary scales, CREA (CRaniofacial Evolutionary Allometry) …
Tamagnini, Michaud, Meloro, Raia, Soibelzon, Tambusso, Varela, Maiorano
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Conical and sabertoothed cats as an exception to craniofacial evolutionary allometry
Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA
The extinct Gomphotheriidae is the only proboscidean family that colonized South America. The phylogenetic position of the endemic taxa …
Baleka, Varela, Tambusso, Paijmans, Mothé, Stafford, Fariña, Hofreiter
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Revisiting proboscidean phylogeny and evolution through total evidence and palaeogenetic analyses including Notiomastodon ancient DNA
Sexual dimorphism in the fossil ground sloth Lestodon armatus (Xenarthra, Folivora)
Mylodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) is a family of ground sloths widely distributed in the South American fossil record, with members …
Varela, McDonald, Fariña
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Sexual dimorphism in the fossil ground sloth Lestodon armatus (Xenarthra, Folivora)
Hard Facts in an Imperfect Site: The Evidence of Human Presence in the Arroyo del Vizcaíno. Reply to Holcomb et al
With the excuse of writing a critique to Domínguez-Rodrigo et al. (2021, duly replied here: Domínguez-Rodrigo & Baquedano, 2022), …
Fariña, Tambusso, Varela, Gascue, Stafford
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