Meridiungulata
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Meridiungulata: References


Abbreviated Dendrogram
Contents

Overview
Meridiungulata
Litopterna
Notoungulata
Toxodontia
Dendrogram
References


Bergqvist, LP (1996), Phylogenetic analysis of South American ungulates and North American "Condylarths" based on postcranial characters. J. Vert. Paleontol. 16: 22A [abstract]

Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co., 698 pp.
Didolodontidae, Litopterna, Notostylopidae, Notoungulata.

Cerdeño, E & M Bond (1998), Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of Paedotherium and Tremacyllus (Pachyrukhinae, Hegetotheriidae, Notoungulata) from the Late Miocene to the Pleistocene of Argentina. J. Vert Paleontol. 18: 799-811. Typotheria.

Cifelli, RL (1983), The origin and affinities of the South American Condylarthra and early Tertiary Litopterna (Mammalia). Am. Mus. Nov. 772:1-49.
Didolodontidae, Didolodus, Litopterna.

Cifelli, RL (1985), South American ungulate evolution and extinction, in SD Webb & FG Stehli [eds.], The Great American Biotic Interchange. Plenum Publ. Co., pp. 249-266.
Didolodontidae, Henricosborniidae, Litopterna, Notoungulata, Notostylopidae, Typotheria.

Cifelli, RL (1993), The phylogeny of the native South American ungulates in FS Szalay, MJ Novacek & MC McKenna [eds.], Mammal Phylogeny. Springer-Verlag 2: 195-216.
Didolodontidae, Litopterna, Notoungulata, Notostylopidae, Typotheria.

Cifelli, RL & J Guerrero (1997), Litopterns, in RF Kay et al. [eds.], Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Inst. Press: pp. 289-302.

Cifelli, RL & C Villarroel (1997), Paleobiology and affinities of Megadolodus, in RF Kay et al. [eds.], Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Inst. Press: pp. 265-288.
Notoungulata.

deMuizon, C & RL Cifelli (2000), The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the Early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of South American ungulates. Geodiversitas 22: 47-150. WWW
Didolodontidae, Didolodus, Litopterna, Meridiungulata

deMuizon C, RL Cifelli & LP Bergqvist (1998), Eutherian tarsals from the early Paleocene of Bolivia. J. Vert. Paleontol. 18: 655-663.
Didolodontidae

Dozo, MT (1996), Endocranial casts of Hegetotheriidae Notoungulates: a case of neuromorphological convergence between extinct south american ungulates and living rodents. J. Vert. Paleontol. 16: 31A. 
Meridiungulata, Typotheria.

Flynn, JJ, DA Croft, R Charrier, G Hérail & AR Wyss (2002), The first Cenozoic mammal fauna from the Chilean Altiplano. J. Vert Paleontol. 22: 200-206.

Gabbert, SL (2004), The basicranial and posterior cranial anatomy of the families of the Toxodontia in GC Gould & SK Bell [eds.], Tributes to Malcolm C. McKenna : His Students, His Legacy. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., pp. 177-190 (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. #285: 177-190). WWW

Gheerbrant, E, J Sudre, M Iarochene & A Moumni (2001), First ascertained African "condylarth" mammals primitive ungulates: c.f. Bulbulodentata and c.f. Phenacodonta) from the Earliest Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco. J. Vert. Paleontol. 21: 107-118.
Meridiungulata.

Johnson, SC & RH Madden (1997), Uruguayatheriine astrapotheres of tropical South America, in RF Kay et al. [eds.], Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Inst. Press: pp. 355-381.

Maas, MC (1997), Enamel microstructure in notoungulates, in RF Kay et al. [eds.], Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Inst. Press: pp. 319-334.
Notostylopidae.

Madden, RH (1997), A new toxodontid notoungulate, in RF Kay et al. [eds.], Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Inst. Press: pp. 335-354.

McKenna, MC (1956), Survival of primitive notoungulates and condylarths into the Miocene of Colombia. Amer. J. Sci. 254: 736-743.
Notoungulata.

Patterson B (1977), A primitive pyrothere (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from the Early Tertiary of northwestern Venezuela. Fieldiana Geol. 33: 397-422.
Notoungulata.

Simpson, GG (1948), The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part 1. Introduction. Systematics: Marsupialia, Edentata, Condylarthra, Litopterna and Notioprogonia. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 91: 1-232.
Didolodontidae, Didolodus, Henricosborniidae, Litopterna, Notostylopidae, Notoungulata.

Villarroel, C & JC Danis (1997), A new leontiniid notoungulate in RF Kay et al. [eds.], Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: the Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Inst. Press pp. 303-318.
Notoungulata.

Zack, SP, TA Penkrot, JI Bloch & KD Rose (2005), Affinities of 'hyopsodontids' to elephant shrews and a Holarctic origin of Afrotheria. Nature 434: 497-501.
Hyopsodontidae.


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