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Prof. Dr. Marcelo Sánchez

Papers in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, book and book chapters

Edited Volumes and Book

• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). 2010. Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press. In press.| Link |
• Sánchez-Villagra MR (ed). 2010. Developmental Vertebrate Palaeontology. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.12.001.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera O (eds). 2008. Vertebrate Palaeontology in Venezuela. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift. 82:103-245.
• Sánchez-Villagra M. R. (ed). 2006. New Vertebrate Finds from the Neogene of Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3), 211-306.
• Sánchez-Villagra M. R. and Clack J. A. (eds). 2004. Fossils of the Castillo Formation, Venezuela: Contributions on Neotropical Palaeontology. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 71. 112 pp.

Papers in peer-reviewed journals

2010 and in press

• Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Developmental palaeontology in synapsids: the rock record of ontogeny in mammals and their closest relatives. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. In press.
• Müller J, Scheyer TM, Head JJ, Barrett P, Werneburg I, Ericson PGP, Pol D, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. In press.
• Wilson LAB, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Diversity trends and their ontogenetic basis: an exploration of allometric disparity in rodents. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1958.
• Delfino M, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. A survey of the rock record of reptilian ontogeny. In: Developmental Vertebrate Palaeontology (ed Sánchez-Villagra MR). Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. In press. doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2009.11.007.
• Delfino M, Scheyer TM, Fritz U, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. An integrative approach to examining a homology question: shell structures in soft-shell turtles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. In press.
• Delfino M, Fritz U, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Evolutionary and developmental aspects of phalangeal formula variation in pig-nose and soft-shelled turtles (Carettochelyidae and Trionychidae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution. In press.
• Hugi J, Mitgutsch C, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Chondrogenic and ossification patterns in White's skink Liopholis whitii (Scincidae, Reptilia). Zoosystematics and Evolution. In press.
• Galliari FC, Carlini AC, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Evolution of the axial skeleton in armadillos (Mammalia, Dasypodidae). Mammalian Biology. In press. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2009.03.014
• Werneburg I, Sánchez-Villagra MR. In press. The Early Development of the Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Mammalia: Monotremata) and the Grundmuster of mammalian development. Acta Zoologica.

2009

• Horovitz I, Martin T, Bloch J, Ladevèze S, Kurz C, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Cranial anatomy of the earliest marsupials and the origin of opossums. PlosOne 4(12): e8278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008278.
• Werneburg I, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Time of organogenesis support basal sauropsid position of turtles in the amniote tree of life. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9:82 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-82.
• Wilson AB, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Heterochrony and Patterns of Cranial Suture Closure in Hystricognath Rodents. Journal of Anatomy. 214:339-354.
• Richardson MK, Gobes S, Leeuwen A van, Poelman A, Pieau C, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Heterochrony in Limb Evolution: Developmental Mechanisms and Natural Selection. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 312B:639-664. DOI 10.1002/jez.b.21250.
• Goswami A, V. Weisbecker V, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 312B: 186-195.
• Johnson KG, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera O. 2009. The Oligocene/Miocene transition on coral reefs in the Falcón Basin (NW Venezuela). Palaios. 24: 59-69.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Müller H, Sheil CA, Scheyer TM, Nagashima H, Kuratani S. 2009. Skeletal Development in the Chinese soft-shelled turtle Pelodiscus sinensis (Reptilia: Testudines: Trionychidae). Journal of Morphology 270:1381-1399. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10766
• Werneburg I, Hugi J, Müller J, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Embryogenesis and ossification of Emydura subglobosa (Testudines, Pleurodira, Chelidae) and patterns of turtle development. Developmental Dynamics. 238:2770-2786.

2008

• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Anjali Goswami G, Weisbecker V, Mock O, Kuratani S. 2008. Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution. Evolution and Development 10:519-530.
• Weisbecker V, Goswami A, Wroe S, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Ossification heterochrony in the mammalian postcranial skeleton and the marsupial-placental dichotomy. Evolution 62:2027-2041 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00424.x).
• Asher RJ, Geisler JH, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Morphology, palaeontology, and placental mammal phylogeny. Systematic Biology. 57:311-317.
• Carmona FD, Motokawa M, Tokita M, Tsuchiyi K, Jiménez R, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. The evolution of female mole ovotestes evidences high plasticity of mammalian gonad development. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Molecular and Developmental Evolution 310B:259-266 (DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21209).
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Ziermann JM, Olsson L. 2008. Limb chondrogenesis in Graptemys nigrinoda (Emydidae), with comments on the primary axis and the digital arch in turtles. Amphibia-Reptilia 29:85-92.
• Hooker JJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Goin FG, Simons EL, Attia Y, Seiffert ER. 2008. The origin of Afro-Arabian 'didelphimorph' marsupials. Palaeontology 51:635-648.
• Scheyer TM, Brüllmann B, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. The ontogeny of the shell in side-necked turtles, with emphasis on the homologies of costal and neural bones. Journal of Morphology 269:1008-1021 (DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10637).
• Barrett PM, Butler RJ, Novas FE, Moore-Fay S, Moody JM, Clark JM, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Dinosaur remains from the La Quinta Formation (Lower or Middle Jurassic) of the Venezuelan Andes. In: Vertebrate Palaeontology in Venezuela. Eds: Sánchez-Villagra MR., Aguilera O. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift. 82: 163-177.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Brinkmann W, Lozsán R. 2008. The Palaeozoic and Mesozoic vertebrate record of Venezuela: An overview and summary of previous discoveries. In: Vertebrate Palaeontology in Venezuela. Eds: Sánchez-Villagra MR., Aguilera O. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift. 82: 113-124.
• Horovitz I, Ladevèze S, Argot C, Hooker JJ, Macrini TE, Martin T, Kurz C, Muizon C de, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. The anatomy of Herpetotherium fugax Cope 1873, a metatherian from the Oligocene of North America. Palaeontographica 284(4-6):109-141.
• Ladevèze S, Asher RJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2008. Petrosal Anatomy in the fossil mammal Necrolestes: evidence for metatherian affinities and comparisons with the extant marsupial mole. Journal of Anatomy 213:686-697.

2007

• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Ladevèze S, Horovitz I, Argot C, Hooker JJ, Macrini TE, Martin T, Moore-Fay S, Muizon C de, Schmelzle T, Asher RJ. 2007. Exceptionally preserved North American Paleogene metatherians: adaptations and discovery of a major gap in the opossum fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biology Letters 3:318-322 (DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0090)
• Bininda-Emonds ORP, Jeffery JE, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Hanken J, Colbert M, Pieau C, Selwood L, Cate C t, Raynaud A, Osabutey CK, Richardson MK. 2007. Forelimb-hind limb developmental timing across tetrapods. BMC Evol. Biol. 7:182 (DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-7-182).
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Seiffert ER, Martin T, Simons EL, Gunnell GF, Attia Y. 2007. Enigmatic new mammals from the late Eocene of Egypt. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 81(4):406-415.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Narita Y, Kuratani S. 2007. Thoracolumbar vertebral number: the first skeletal synapomorphy for afrotherian mammals. Systematics and Biodiversity 5:1-7.
• Schmelzle T, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Maier W. 2007. Vestibular labyrinth evolution in diprotodontian marsupial mammals. Mammal Study 32:83-97.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Schmelzle T. 2007. Anatomy and development of the bony inner ear in the woolly opossum, Caluromys philander (Didelphimorphia, Marsupialia). Mastozoología Neotropical. 14:53-60.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Winkler JD, Wurst L. 2007. Autopodial skeleton evolution in side-necked turtles (Pleurodira). Acta Zoologica. 88: 199-209.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Mitgutsch C, Nagashima H, Kuratani S. 2007. Autopodial development in the sea turtles Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta. Zoological Science. 24: 257-263.
• Scheyer T, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2007. Carapace bone histology in the giant Stupendemys geographicus (Pleurodira: Podocnemidae): phylogenetic and functional aspects. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52:137-154.
• Asher RJ, Horovitz I, Martin T, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2007. Neither a rodent nor a platypus: a reexamination of Necrolestes patagonensis Ameghino. American Museum Novitates 3546:1-40.
• Goin FJ, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Abello A, Kay RF. 2007. A new generalized paucituberculatan marsupial from the Oligocene of Bolivia, and the origin of 'shrew-like' opossums. Palaeontology. 50:1267-1276.

2006

• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Horovitz, I., Motokawa, M. 2006. A comprehensive morphological analysis of talpid moles (Mammalia) phylogenetic relationships. Cladistics 22:59-88. -Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2006. Homologies of the mammalian shoulder girdle - a response to Matsuoka et al. Evolution and Development 8:113-115.
• Giannini N., Goswami A., Sánchez-Villagra M. R.. 2006. Development of integumentary structures in Rousettus amplexicaudatus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) during late-embryonic and fetal stages. Journal of Mammalogy. 87(5), 993-1001.
• Head, J. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Aguilera O. 2006. Past colonization of South America by trionychid turtles: Fossil evidence from the Neogene of Margarita Island, Venezuela. Journal of Herpetology 40: 378-381.
• Forasiepi A., Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Goin F. J., Takai M., Shigehara, N., Kay R. F. 2006. A new species of Hathliacynidae (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) from the Middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26: 670-684.
• Nummela S., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2006. Scaling of the marsupial middle ear and its functional significance. Journal of Zoology, London. 270: 256-267
• Head, J. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Aguilera O. A. 2006. Fossil snakes from the Neogene of Venezuela (Falcón State). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(3): 233-240.
• Horovitz, I., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Martin, T., Aguilera O. A. 2006. The fossil record of Phoberomys pattersoni Mones 1980 (Mammalia, Rodentia) from Urumaco (Late Miocene, Venezuela), with an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3): 293-306.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Winkler, J. D. 2006. Cranial variation in Bairdemys turtles (Podocnemididae: Miocene of the Caribbean region) and description of new material from Urumaco, Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3): 241-253.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Aguilera O. A. 2006. Neogene Vertebrates from Urumaco, Falcón State, Venezuela: Diversity and Significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 4(3):213-220.
• Winkler, J. D., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2006. A nesting site and egg morphology of a Miocene turtle from Urumaco, Venezuela: direct evidence of marine adaptations in a pelomedusoides . Palaeontology. 49:641-646.
• Weisbecker V., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2006. Carpal evolution in diprotodontian marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 146: 369-384.

2005

• Asher, R. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2005. Locking yourself out: diversity among dentally zalambdodont therian mammals. In: Polly, P. D., Springer, M. S., and Luo, Z.-X. (eds.) Festschrift Prof. W. Clemens. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12: 267-284.
• Schmelzle T., Nummela S., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2005. Phylogenetic Transformations of the Ear Ossicles in Marsupial Mammals, with Special Reference to Diprotodontians: A Character Analysis. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 74: 189-200.
• Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Menke, P. R. 2005. The mole's thumb - evolution of the hand skeleton in talpids (Mammalia). Zoology. 108:3-12.

2004

• Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Menke, P. R., Geisler, J. H. 2004. Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the humerus of moles (Talpidae, Mammalia): a character analysis. Mammal Study 29: 163-170.
• Asher, R. J., Horovitz, I., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2004. First Combined Cladistic Analysis of Marsupial Mammal Phylogenetic Relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 33: 240-250.
• Prochel J, Vogel P., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2004. Hand development and sequence of ossification in the forelimb of the European shrew Crocidura russula (Soricidae) and comparisons across therian mammals. Journal of Anatomy 205: 99-111.
• Crumly, C. C., Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2004. Patterns of variation in the phalangeal formulae of land tortoises (Testudinidae): developmental constraint imposed by size and phylogenetic history. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 302B: 134-146.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Asher, R. J., Rincón, A. D., Carlini, A. A., Meylan, P., Purdy, R. W. 2004. New faunal reports for the Cerro La Cruz locality (Lower Miocene), north-western Venezuela. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR and Clack JA (eds). Fossils of the Miocene Castillo Formation, Venezuela: Contributions on Neotropical Palaeontology. Special Papers in Palaeontology 71: 105-112.
• Weston E. M., Madden R. H. and Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2004. Early Miocene Astrapotheres (Mammalia) from Northern South America. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR and Clack JA (eds). Fossils of the Castillo Formation, Venezuela: Contributions in Neotropical Palaeontology. Special Papers in Palaeontology 71: 81-97.

2003

• Sánchez-Villagra M. R., Aguilera O. A. and Horovitz, I. 2003. The anatomy of the world's largest extinct rodent. Science , 301: 1708-1710.
• Gemballa, S., Weitbrecht, G. W., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2003. 3-D reconstruction and microanatomy of the myosepta in the lancelet Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Pallas, 1774). Zoomorphology 122: 169-179.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Döttling, M. 2003. Carpal ontogeny in Dasyurus viverrinus and carpal evolution in the Dasyuromorpha among the Marsupialia. Mammalian Biology. 68: 329-340.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2003. Ontogenesis of the scapula in marsupial mammals, with special emphasis on perinatal stages of didelphids and remarks on the origin of the therian scapula. Journal of Morphology 258: 115-129.
• Horovitz I. and Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2003. A comprehensive analysis of marsupial higher-level relationships. Cladistics 19: 181-212.
• Goin, F. J., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Kay, R. F., Anaya-Daza, F., and Takai, M. 2003. New Paleothentid Marsupial from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. Palaeontology 46: 307-315.
• Prochel J. and Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2003. Carpal ontogeny in Monodelphis domestica and Caluromys philander (Didelphidae, Marsupialia). Zoology 106: 73-84.

2002

• Großmann, M., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2002. On the development of the shoulder girdle in Crocidura russula (Soricidae) and other placental mammals: evolutionary and functional aspects. Journal of Anatomy 201: 371-381.
• Gaffney, E. S., DeBlieux, D., Simons, E., Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., and Meylan, P. A. 2002. Redescription of the skull of Dacquemys, Williams 1954, a podocnemidid side-necked turtle from the Late Eocene of Egypt. American Museum Novitates 3372:1-16.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Sultan, F. 2002. The cerebellum at birth in therian mammals, with special reference to rodents. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 59:101-113.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and J. R. Wible. 2002. Patterns of evolutionary transformation in the petrosal bone and some basicranial features in marsupial mammals, with special reference to didelphids. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 40:26-45.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and Maier, W. 2002. Ontogenetic data and the evolutionary origin of the mammalian scapula. Naturwissenschaften 89:459-461.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., S. Gemballa, S. Nummela, K. K. Smith, and W. Maier. 2002. Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the ear ossicles in marsupial mammals. Journal of Morphology 251:219-238.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and R. J. Asher. 2002. Cranio-sensory adaptations in small faunivorous semiaquatic mammals, with special reference to olfaction and the trigeminal system. Mammalia 66:93-109.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2002b. The cerebellar paraflocculus and the subarcuate fossa in Monodelphis domestica and other marsupial mammals: The ontogeny and phylogeny of a brain-skull interaction. Acta Theriologica 47:1-14.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2002a. Comparative patterns of postcranial ontogeny in therian mammals: an analysis of relative timing of ossification events. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 294:264-273.

2001

• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and S. Nummela. 2001. Bullate stapedes in some phalangeriform marsupials. Mammalian Biology 66:174-177.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., Z. Gasparini, R. Loszán, J. M. Moody and M. D. Uhen. 2001. New Discoveries of Vertebrates from a Near-shore Marine Fauna from the Early Miocene of Northwestern Venezuela. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 75:227-232.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2001b. Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the vomeronasal complex and the nasal floor in marsupial mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131:459-479.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. 2001a. The phylogenetic relationships of argyrolagid marsupials. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131:481-496.

2000

• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., R. F. Kay, and F. Anaya-Daza. 2000. Cranial anatomy and paleobiology of the Miocene marsupial Hondalagus altiplanensis and a phylogeny of argyrolagids. Palaeontology 43:287-301.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., R. J. Burnham, D. C. Campbell, R. M. Feldmann, E. S. Gaffney, R. F. Kay, R. Lozsán, R. Purdy, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 2000. A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the early Neogene of Northwestern Venezuela. Journal of Paleontology 74:957-968.

1995-1998

• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and B. Williams. 1998. Levels of homoplasy in the evolution of the mammalian skeleton. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 5:113-126.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., T. R. Pope and V. Salas. 1998. Intergroup variation of allogrooming in red howling monkeys (Alouatta seniculus). International Journal of Primatology 19:473-491.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and R. F. Kay. 1997. A skull of Proargyrolagus, the oldest argyrolagid (Late Oligocene Salla Beds, Bolivia), with brief comments on its paleobiology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17:717-724.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and K. K. Smith. 1997. Evolution and diversity of the marsupial mandibular angular process. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 4:119-144.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R. and R. F. Kay. 1996. Do phalangeriforms (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia) have a "hypocone"? Australian Journal of Zoology 44:461-7.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., P. C. H. Pritchard, A. Paolillo and O. J. Linares. 1995. Geographic variation in the matamata turtle, Chelus fimbriatus, and observations on its shell morphology and morphometry. Journal of Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1:293-300.
• Sánchez-Villagra, M. R., O. J. Linares and A. Paolillo. 1995. Consideraciones sobre la sistemática de las tortugas del género Chelus (Pleurodira: Chelidae) y nuevas evidencias fósiles del Mioceno de Colombia y Venezuela. Ameghiniana 32:159-167.

Book chapters

• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AC. 2010. The Cenozoic Vertebrate Fossil Record of Venezuela. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. A history of Venezuelan vertebrate paleontology. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Scheyer TM. 2010. Fossil turtles from Venezuela and Colombia. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR, Villalba C. 2010. Venezuelan Geography and Geology. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.
• Aguilera OA, Rodrigues de Aguilera, Vega F, Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2010. Fossil decapods from Venezuela. In: Sánchez-Villagra MR, Aguilera OA, Carlini AA (eds). Urumaco and Venezuelan Palaeontology - The fossil record of the Northern Neotropics. Indiana University Press.

Popular Science and Museum Exhibit Publications

• Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Aussterben im Paläogen und Neogen. Pp. 48-49. In: Furrer H, Haffner M (eds). Massenausterben und Evolution. Universität Zürich, Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum.
• Sánchez-Villagra MR. 2009. Aussterben in den letzten zwei Millionen Jahren. Pp. 50-53. In: Furrer H, Haffner M (eds). Massenausterben und Evolution. Universität Zürich, Palaeontologisches Institut und Museum.

Book review

• Sánchez-Villagra M. R. 2006. Review of Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe's (2006) Life of Marsupials. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 13: 85-88.