On the South American mainland dogs were present in northern Colombia from the first millennium cal. BC (Angulo Váldes1981; Ardila1983), and they were presumably also kept further east at the same time to permit their subsequent introduction to the West Indies. In the early centuries of Europ...
scope, our results indicate that approximately 85.4% of the records correspond to specimens new to science or older ones that have been revisited. These materials come from 164 different fossil-bearing localities, spread over eight of the twelve South American countries, and range from the Early ...
Our data also shed light on the debate regarding the taxonomy and evolution of the sardine species that occur on the Atlantic (Sardinella auritaandS. brasiliensis), proposed recently to be a single species (S. aurita) [29]. Despite the relatively high level of divergence observed in the whole...