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Volume 25, Issue 4

December 2018

Special Issue: Morphology and Evolution of Xenarthra

Issue Editors:

M. Susana Bargo,
John A. Nyakatura

11 articles in this issue

Morphology and Evolution of the Xenarthra: an Introduction
M. Susana Bargo
John A. Nyakatura
Editorial 20 November 2017 Pages: 445 - 447
Recent Progress and Future Prospects in Fossil Xenarthran Studies, with Emphasis on Current Methodology in Sloth Taxonomy
Gerardo De Iuliis
Review 12 August 2017 Pages: 449 - 458
The Postcranial Musculoskeletal System of Xenarthrans: Insights from over Two Centuries of Research and Future Directions
Eli Amson
John A. Nyakatura
Review 01 August 2017 Pages: 459 - 484
An Overview of the Presence of Osteoderms in Sloths: Implications for Osteoderms as a Plesiomorphic Character of the Xenarthra
H. Gregory McDonald
Original Paper 12 December 2017 Pages: 485 - 493
Advantages and Limitations in the Use of Extant Xenarthrans (Mammalia) as Morphological Models for Paleobiological Reconstruction
Sergio F. Vizcaíno
Néstor Toledo
M. Susana Bargo
Original Paper 09 July 2017 Pages: 495 - 505
An Overview of Xenarthran Developmental Studies with a Focus on the Development of the Xenarthrous Vertebrae
Lionel Hautier
Jillian D. Oliver
Stephanie E. Pierce
Original Paper 23 September 2017 Pages: 507 - 523
The Concept of a Pedolateral Pes Revisited: The Giant Sloths Megatherium and Eremotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatheriinae) as a Case Study
Néstor Toledo
Gerardo De Iuliis
M. Susana Bargo
Original Paper 06 September 2017 Pages: 525 - 537
Potential Distribution of Fossil Xenarthrans in South America during the Late Pleistocene: co-Occurrence and Provincialism
Luciano Varela
P. Sebastián Tambusso
Richard A. Fariña
Original Paper 23 July 2017 Pages: 539 - 550
Feeding Ecology in Oligocene Mylodontoid Sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra) as Revealed by Orthodentine Microwear Analysis
Daniela C. Kalthoff
Jeremy L. Green
Original Paper Open access 28 July 2017 Pages: 551 - 564
Epaxial Musculature in Armadillos, Sloths, and Opossums: Functional Significance and Implications for the Evolution of Back Muscles in the Xenarthra
Timothy J. Gaudin
John A. Nyakatura
Original Paper 09 July 2017 Pages: 565 - 572
Architectural Properties of Sloth Forelimb Muscles (Pilosa: Bradypodidae)
Rachel A. Olson
Zachary D. Glenn
Michael T. Butcher
Original Paper 26 September 2017 Pages: 573 - 588