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20 paź 2024 · Step into the vibrant landscapes of South America and you’ll encounter a fascinating array of creatures, each uniquely adapted to their environment. Among them are mammals with a particularly intriguing feature: a flexible snout.
1 mar 2021 · Notoungulates are an extinct clade of South American mammals, comprising a large diversity of body sizes and skeletal morphologies, and including taxa with highly specialized dentitions.
23 lut 2021 · The sparse record of archaic Mesozoic South American mammals extends from the latest Early Jurassic to the latest Cretaceous, involving about 115 Ma, which can be further extended to about 160 Ma, including the post-K/Pg evidence. We review here the...
9 maj 2016 · The mammalian face and cheeks are flexible, highly sensitive and sometimes motile structures for whisking, implying that the branches of the ION must also be flexible to prevent damage during...
23 cze 2016 · Mammals are able to whisk with their snouts because the trigeminal nerve is not enclosed in a long maxillary canal. It’s flexible and free to follow the snout’s movements.
2 lis 2011 · The first mammalian remains from the early Late Cretaceous of South America are reported, including two partial skulls and jaws of a highly derived dryolestoid. The dryolestoids are...
2 lis 2011 · Prior to the appearance of mammals in Patagonia in the Late Cretaceous 2, only two South American mammals from the Cretaceous have been identified: Vincelestes neuquenianus, from the Early...