Evolutionary Morphology / Palaeobiology of Vertebrates / Cultural Macroevolution
The research group around Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra

Lab Publication List

Peer reviewed papers/Book chapters

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - pre Zürich

Balcarcel AM, Bastiaans D, Orliac MJ (2023) Endocranial casts of Camelops hesternus and Palaeolama sp., new insights into the recent history of the camelid brain. Brain Behavior and Evolution 98 (2):107-120 [doi: 10.1159/000528762].
Bianucci G, Lambert O, Urbina M, Merella M, Collareta A, Bennion R, Salas-Gismondi R, Benites-Palomino A, Post K, de Muizon C, Bosio G, Di Celma C, Malinverno E, Pierantoni PP, Villa IM, Amson E (2023) A heavyweight early whale pushes the boundaries of vertebrate morphology. Nature [doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06381-1].
Cadena E-A, Link A, Vanegas A, Avellaneda-Otero CA, Perdomo C, Urueña-Carrillo DA, Sánchez R, Vanegas RD, Scheyer TM, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2023) New insights into the fossil record of the turtle genus Chelus Duméril, 1806 including new specimens with information on cervicals and limb bones. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2023 (34):689-709 [doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a34].
Carrillo JD, Suarez C, Benites-Palomino AM, Vanegas A, Link A, Rincón AF, Luque J, Cooke SB, Tallman M, Billet G (2023). New remains of Neotropical bunodont litopterns and the systematics of Megadolodinae (Mammalia: Litopterna). Geodiversitas, 45(15):409-447.
Carrillo-Briceño JD, Mora-Rojas L, Hendricks K, Vanegas A, Aguilera O (2023) New clues on the palaeodiversity of the middle Miocene freshwater ichthyofauna from the Tatacoa Desert, Colombia, in Carrillo JD (ed), Neotropical palaeontology: the Miocene La Venta biome. Geodiversitas 45 (10): 327-351.
Carrillo-Briceño JD, Vezzosi RI, Ming KM, Christen ZM, Mothé D, Ruiz-Ramoni D, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2023) Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):12 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00273-7].
Christen ZM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Le Verger K (2023) Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):14 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00280-8].
Forasiepi AM, Aguirre-Fernández G (2023) Santiago Roth and his scientific legacy: a reappraisal of the Swiss collections. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):29 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00287-1].
Hayashi S, Kubo MO, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Taruno H, Izawa M, Shiroma T, Nakano T, Fujita M (2023) Variation and process of life history evolution in insular dwarfism as revealed by a natural experiment. Frontiers in Earth Science, section Paleontology 11 [doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1095903].
Le Verger K (2023) Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):3 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00265-7].
Le Verger K, Gonzalez Ruiz L, Billet G (2023) 3D models related to the publication: comparative anatomy and phylogenetic contribution of intracranial osseous canals and cavities in armadillos and glyptodonts (Xenarthra, Cingulata). MorphoMuseuM:e157 [doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.157].
Le Verger K, Hautier L, Gerber S, Bardin J, Delsuc F, González Ruiz LR, Amson E, Billet G (2023) Pervasive cranial allometry at different anatomical scales and variational levels in extant armadillos. Evolution:1-19 [doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpad214].
Loza CM, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Scarano AC, Romero M, Barbeito CG, Carlini AA (2023) The brain of fur seals, seals, and walrus (Pinnipedia): a comparative anatomical and phylogenetic study of cranial endocasts of semiaquatic mammals. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 30:1011–1028 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-023-09679-z].
McKay CJ, Luckett WP, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2023) Vestigial structures and variation in the evolution of the marsupial mammal dental development - a study of the woolly opossum Caluromys philander. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 30:21–31 [doi: 10.1007/s10914-022-09638-0].
Menéndez LP, Barbieri C, López Cruz IG, Schmelzle T, Breidenstein A, Barquera R, Borzi G, Schuenemann VJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2023) On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):26 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00293-3].
Menéndez LP, López Cruz IG, Schmelzle T (2023) 3D model related to the publication: On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis. MorphoMuseuM e202. [doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.202].
Orliac MJ, Maugoust J, Balcarcel AM, Gilissen E (2023) Paleoneurology of Artiodactyla, an Overview of the Evolution of the Artiodactyl Brain. In: Dozo M.T., Paulina-Carabajal A., Macrini T.E. & Walsh S., editors. Paleoneurology of Amniotes: New Directions in the Study of Fossil Endocasts. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p 507-555.
Reyes-Céspedes AE, Carlini AA, Carrillo-Briceño JD (2023) New record of Pachyarmatherium (Cingulata: Pachyarmatheriidae) from the Late Pleistocene in Venezuela. Anartia 35:7–13 [doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7951590].
Ronez C, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Hadler P, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Pardiñas UFJ (2023) Pliocene sigmodontine rodents (Mammalia: Cricetidae) in northernmost South America: test of biogeographic hypotheses and revised evolutionary scenarios. Royal Society Open Science 10 (8):221417 [doi: 10.1098/rsos.221417].
Ruiz-Ramoni D, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Voglino D, Prevosti FJ (2023) Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):11 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00274-6].
Sánchez-Villagra MR (2023) Claude Lévi-Strauss, precursor humanista dos estudos sobre macroevolução cultural (tradução: Marcelo Coelho). Revista Rosa 7 (3) [https://revistarosa.com].
Sánchez-Villagra MR, Bond M, Reguero M, Bartoletti T J (2023) From fossil trader to palaeontologist: on Swiss-born naturalist Santiago Roth and his scientific contributions. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142:19 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00282-6].
Segura V, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2023) La domesticación de los cánidos en las Américas: el Principio de Ana Karenina y la Cosmovisión de los pueblos. In: Perros y Otros Cánidos de las Américas Origen, Evolución e Historia Natural (Eds). Fundación de Historia Natural Félix de Azara / Vazquez Mazzini Editores:109-133.
Solé F, Fournier M, Ladevèze S, Le Verger K, Godinot M, Laurent Y, Smith T (2023) New postcranial elements of mesonychid mammals from the Ypresian of France: new hypotheses for the radiation and evolution of the mesonychids in Europe. Journal of Mammalian Evolution [doi: 10.1007/s10914-023-09651-x].
Viglino M, Valenzuela-Toro AM, Benites-Palomino A, Hernández-Cisneros AE, Gutstein CS, Aguirre-Fernández G, Velez-Juarbe J, Cozzuol MA, Buono MR, Loch C (2023) Aquatic mammal fossils in Latin America–a review of records, advances and challenges in research in the last 30 years. The Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals 18 (1):50-66.
Voglino D, Carrillo-Briceño JD, Furrer H, Balcarcel A, Rangel-de Lazaro G, Aguirre Fernández G, Forasiepi AM (2023) Pampean megamammals in Europe: the fossil collections from Santiago Roth. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 142 (1):25 [doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00283-5].