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On the type of Schismotherium fractum Ameghino, 1887 (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatherioidea) from the Early Miocene Santa Cruz Formation (Santa Cruz province, Argentina)
(Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, 2018-03)
Schismotherium fractum, the type species for the genus, is a basal Megatherioidea (Xenarthra, Folivora) from the Santa Cruz Formation (Early Miocene) of Patagonia. The type specimen, currently lost, was described as a ...
Los perezosos Scelidotheriinae (Xenarthra, Folivora): Taxonomía, biocronología y biogeografíaThe sloths Scelidotheriinae (Xenarthra, Folivora): Taxonomy, biocronology, and biogeography
(Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", 2020-12)
Los perezosos Scelidotheriinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) representan un clado sudamericano que, a pesar de tener una distribución geográfica muy amplia, no participaron del Gran Intercambio Biótico Americano ...
The Concept of a Pedolateral Pes Revisited: The Giant Sloths Megatherium and Eremotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatheriinae) as a Case Study
(Springer, 2017-09)
The concept of a pedolateral pes in many extinct sloths began effectively with Owen’s mid-nineteenth century descriptions of Glossotherium and Megatherium. Pedolaterality denotes a pes that is habitually inverted, with the ...
Exploring morphological data partitioning and reassessing the phylogeny, divergence times and morphological evolution in Pilosa (Mammalia: Xenarthra)
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrasilICB - DEPARTAMENTO DE ZOOLOGIAPrograma de Pós-Graduação em ZoologiaUFMG, 2021-08-24)
Morphological evolution is heterogeneous and analytical methods should take this into
consideration in order to produce reliable inferences, both for phylogenetic analyses and for
studies of morphological evolution based ...