Juan D. Carrillo, Catalina Suarez, Aldo Benites‐Palomino, Andrés Vanegas, Andrés Link, Aldo F. Rincón, Javier Luque, Siobhán B. Cooke, Melissa Tallman, Guillaume Billet,
... bunodontes neotropicales y la sistemática de Megadolodinae (Mammalia: Litopterna). Litopterna es uno de los clados más diversos de ... pero posteriormente fueron reclasificados como Proterotheriidae, dentro de Litopterna. Estudios anteriores propusieron su inclusión dentro de Proterotheriidae, ... y Neodolodus y reevaluamos sus relaciones filogenéticas con Litopterna y Didolodontidae. En nuestros análisis filogenéticos, utilizamos dos ... relación estrecha entre Megadolodus y Neodolodus, dentro de Litopterna, y no una relación con Didolodontidae. A un ...
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
2023 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Geodiversitas
Mariano Bond, Marcelo Reguero, Sergio F. Vizcaı́no, Sergio A. Marenssi,
... genus and species of the family Sparnotheriodontidae (Mammalia, Litopterna), is represented by several isolated teeth from the ... the extinct order of ‘South American native ungulate’ Litopterna characterized by the convergence of the later forms ... phylogeny of some of the ‘South American ungulates’ (Litopterna). This new taxon shows the importance of Antarctica ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2006 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications

Guillaume Billet, Christian de Muizon, Rico Schellhorn, Irina Ruf, Sandrine Ladevèze, Lílian Paglarelli Bergqvist,
... our new observations, failed to recover a monophyletic Litopterna but did not exclude it. A constrained analysis ... of the cochlear canaliculus may constitute synapomorphies for Litopterna. The evolution of several other auditory characters amongst Litopterna is discussed and the relative dimensions of the ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2015 - Oxford University Press | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
... American Mioclaenidae and a clade comprising the Didolodontidae + Litopterna. The addition of upper dental characters of Escribania ... Mioclaenidae, con los Didolodontidae y los mas primitivos Litopterna. Una hipotesis filogenetica provisoria es expresada a traves ... y por el otro, a los Didolodontidae y Litopterna. Por otra parte la consideracion de caracteres dentales ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2004 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
... ungulates occurred in South America during the Tertiary: Litopterna, Notoungulata, Astrapotheria, Xenungulata, Pyrotheria, Didolodontidae, and kollpaniine mioclaenid condylarths. Astrapotheria and Litopterna also occurred in Antarctica. Condylarths from North America ... condylarths, and three groups of South American ungulates (Litopterna, Notoungulata, and Astrapotheria) is presented here. The analysis ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2004 - | Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Christian de Muizon, Richard L. Cifelli,
... regarded as closely related to the Didolodontidae and Litopterna (especially the Protolipternidae). The key synapomorphy of the ... condylarths confirms that the South American Didolodontidae and Litopterna have their origins in North American Mioclaenidae. A ... Kollpaniinae (South American Mioclaenidae), the Didolodontidae, and the Litopterna. This clade is formally designated as a new ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2000 - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle | Geodiversitas
Andrea Corona, Daniel Perea, Martı́n Ubilla,
... been performed in a detailed study of the Litopterna (Mammalia, 'Meridiungulata') of Uruguay. The Proterotheriidae is the most diverse family of the Litopterna. In Uruguay, the record of the Proterotheriidae, although ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Guillermo H. Cassini, Nahuel A. Muñoz, Sergio F. Vizcaı́no,
... late early Miocene Santacrucian Age, the orders Notoungulata, Litopterna, and Astrapotheria were differentiated. Recent ecomorphological studies highlighted ... show a very strong morphological integration within the Litopterna, but a pattern of modularity in the Notoungulata. ... a common pattern of covariation in Astrapotheria and Litopterna, which might be due to similar constraints. The ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2017 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
Richard A. Fariña, R. Ernesto Blanco, Per Christiansen,
... ESTRATEGIA DE ESCAPE DE MACRAUCHENIA PATACHONICA OWEN (MAMMALIA; LITOPTERNA). La megafauna lujanense (Pleistoceno tardio de Sudamerica) muestra ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2005 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
Andrew J. McGrath, Federico Anaya, Darin A. Croft,
... D. A. Croft. 2018. Two new macraucheniids (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the late middle Miocene (Laventan South American ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Lydia Hilda Delupi de Bianchini, Juan José Bianchini,
... on morphological dental characteristics of the Proterotheriinae (Mammalia, Litopterna ), group studied by Ameghino. Each genus is compared ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
1971 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana

Carolina Saldanha Scherer, Vanessa Gregis Pitana, Ana María Ribeiro,
New materials of the order Litopterna from the late Pleistocene (Lujanian) of Rio Grande do Sul State are presented here.The specimens are an astragalus and calcaneum, ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2009 - | Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia

The order Litopterna is represented in the São José de Itaboraí basin by four species belonging to the families Protolipternidae ( Protolipterna ... the placement of this family within the order Litopterna. The analysis of the wear level of dp2- ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2010 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Paleontology
María Teresa Dozo, Bárbara Vera,
... first skull associated with postcranial elements of Macraucheniidae (Litopterna) from the Sarmiento Formation in Cabeza Blanca (Chubut, ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Rafael Rodríguez Brizuela, Adrián Tauber,
... sp., Propediolagus sp. (Mammalia, Rodentia), Eoauchenia sp. (Mammalia, Litopterna). Este conjunto faunistico sugiere: 1) una Edad Plioceno ... sp., Propediolagus sp. (Mammalia, Rodentia), Eoauchenia sp. (Mammalia, Litopterna). This faunistic association suggests: 1) Lower Pliocene age; ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2006 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
Amalia L. Villafañe, Gabriela Schmidt, Esperanza Cerdeño,
... AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS ON THOATHERIOPSIS MENDOCENSIS SORIA, 2001 (LITOPTERNA, PROTEROTHERIIDAE). The revision of the Family Proterotheriidae has ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2012 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
Darin A. Croft, John J. Flynn, André R. Wyss,
... Hegetotherium cf. H. mirabile (Hegetotheriidae). Theosodon sp. indet. (Litopterna: Macraucheniidae) is recorded on the basis of a ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2004 - | Fieldiana Geology
Gabriela Schmidt, Brenda S. Ferrero,
... mandible of Theosodon hystatus Cabrera and Kraglievich (Macraucheniidae, Litopterna) from the late Miocene Arroyo Chasicó locality (Buenos ...
Tópico(s): Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
María Teresa Dozo, Martín R. Ciancio, Pablo José Bouza, Gastón Martínez,
... represent the new association (mainly Xenarthra, Notoungulata and Litopterna) come from the lower section of the Sarmiento ... Archaeohyracidae’: Pseudhyrax eutrachytheroides?; Leontiniidae: Leontinia gaudryi?; Isotemnidae indet.; Litopterna, Proterotheriidae indet. Although the presence of Leontinia and ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2014 - National Geology and Mining Service | Andean geology
... Ameghino, Protypotherium Ameghino, Hegetotherium Ameghino, and Pachyrukhos Ameghino), Litopterna (Theosodon Ameghino, Anisolophus Burmeister, Tetramerorhinus Ameghino, Diadiaphorus Ameghino, ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2013 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
A systematic update of the species of Proterotheriidae (Litopterna) from the "Mesopotamiense" of Entre Ríos Province (Argentina) ...
Tópico(s): Comparative Animal Anatomy Studies
2015 - | Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia
Analía M. Forasiepi, R. D. E. MacPhee, Santiago Hernández Del Pino, Gabriela Schmidt, Eli Amson, Camille Grohé,
... systematically as Huayqueriana cf. H. cristata (Rovereto, 1914) (Litopterna, Macraucheniidae). The specimen shares some nonexclusive features with ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2016 - American Museum of Natural History | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History

Leonardo Souza Lobo, Gisele Lessa, Cástor Cartelle, Pedro S. R. Romano,
Abstract Litopterna is represented in the Pleistocene of the Brazilian Intertropical Region by a monospecific genus of Macraucheniidae, Xenorhinotherium . ... not support afrotherian-like delayed dental eruption to Litopterna. The hypsodonty index can be related to data ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2017 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Paleontology

Pablo J. Gaudioso, Germán Mariano Gasparini, Rafael Herbst, Rubén M. Bárquez,
... record of the Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli, 1921 (Mammalia, Litopterna) from Pleistocene deposits of the Río Dulce, Rio ...
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
2017 - UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO | Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
... Thomashuxleya and Carodnia with Afrotheria.With Notoungulata and Litopterna constrained as monophyletic (including Macrauchenia and Toxodon known ... Thomashuxleya is a stem xenarthran; with Notoungulata and Litopterna constrained as monophyletic, the two clades are recovered ...
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
2017 - | Palaeontologia Electronica
Elizabeth Morosi, Martı́n Ubilla,
... medium sized cursorial native South American ungulates (Order Litopterna), having had its diversity peak in the Miocene. ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Historical Biology
Gabriela Schmidt, Claudia I. Montalvo, Renata Sostillo, Esperanza Cerdeño,
Remains of Proterotheriidae (Litopterna) recovered from different localities in La Pampa Province, Argentina, are described. The fossiliferous levels in these localities correspond to ...
Tópico(s): Physiological and biochemical adaptations
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of South American Earth Sciences
Nicolás R. Chimento, Federico L. Agnolín,
Abstract The Litopterna is an extinct clade of endemic South American ungulates that range from Paleocene up to late Pleistocene times. ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2020 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
... Adinotherium, Nesodon, Interatherium, Protypotherium, Hegetotherium and Pachyrukhos), the Litopterna (Theosodon, Anisolophus, Tetramerorhinus, Diadiaphorus and Thoatherium) and the ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2013 - Asociación Paleontológica Argentina | Ameghiniana
Gabriela Schmidt, Esperanza Cerdeño, Santiago Hernández Del Pino,
In this contribution we present new specimens of Litopterna recovered during the last decade in Quebrada Fiera ( ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2019 - National Geology and Mining Service | Andean geology