Abstract
The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) between North and South America is one of the most important events in the history of land mammals. The interchange occurred in several phases during more than nine million years. The oldest genera of North American origin in southern South America occur in beds of Late Miocene age. However, the major episodes of mammalian dispersal from North America appear to have occurred from the Marplatan (Latest Pliocene–Early Pleistocene) to the Lujanian (Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene). In this book, we focus on mammals of southern South America, where the most important and richest localities with fossil vertebrates of Late Miocene–Holocene age were reported.
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Cione, A.L., Gasparini, G.M., Soibelzon, E., Soibelzon, L.H., Tonni, E.P. (2015). Introduction. In: The Great American Biotic Interchange. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9792-4_1
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