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A Brief History of South American Metatherians

Part of the Springer Earth System Sciences Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7420-8

ISBN: 978-94-017-7418-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2015

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Introduction

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 1 –35

[With more than 100 species, living South American marsupials (Mammalia, Metatheria) give only a glimpse of the much higher taxonomic and ecological diversity acquired by metatherians throughout the Cenozoic Era. The term Metatheria designs a taxon within Mammalia that includes not only...
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South American Living Metatherians: Physiological Ecology and Constraints

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 37 –75

[South American living metatherians are relatively inconspicuous and comprise ca. 10 % of the region’s mammal species richness. Most of them are small-sized (<150 g), with long tails and grasping hands and feet, and resemble one another in their general appearance. Individuals are solitary,...
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Dispersal of Vertebrates from Between the Americas, Antarctica, and Australia in the Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 77 –124

[The early Paleocene diversity of metatherians in Tiupampan faunas of South America and the pre-Tiupampan Paleocene polydolopimorphian Cocatherium speak in favor of an earliest Paleocene or Late Cretaceous dispersal of metatherians from North America. No Late Cretaceous metatherian or eutherian...
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Evolutionary Contexts

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 125 –154

[In order to understand the timing of metatherian radiations, adaptations, and extinctions, it is important to review the variety of strongly interrelated contexts that defined them. (1) During the Cenozoic Era, global climates shifted from Greenhouse to Icehouse conditions; this major change was...
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Phylogeny and Diversity of South American Metatherians

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 155 –183

[The Metatheria include not only marsupials but all therians more related to Marsupialia than to the Eutheria. Marsupialia is considered as a metatherian crown group including all extant marsupials, their common ancestor and all of their descendants. “Ameridelphia” is not a natural group....
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Paleobiology and Adaptations of Paleogene Metatherians

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 185 –208

[Diversity, dietary, and body mass analyses suggest that the early Eocene represents the major radiation event in South America metatherian evolutionary history. During this period, representatives of all orders typical of the Paleogene reached their greatest diversity (i.e., “basal...
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Summary: Milestones in the Evolution of South American Metatherians

Goin, Francisco J.; Woodburne, Michael O.; Zimicz, Ana Natalia; Martin, Gabriel M.; Chornogubsky, Laura

Pages: 209 –225

[We summarize the configuration of plates, geographical barriers, and possible dispersal events during the Late Cretaceous–Cenozoic between North and South America, the Caribbean, Antarctica, and Australia. The arrival of metatherians in South America was a Late Cretaceous event, and probably a...

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